Instructional Video6:02
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Discovering Adjectives in a Story

K - 5th
This video encourages viewers to identify and understand the role of adjectives in a story about a cricket and an ant. It highlights various adjectives, including descriptive words about characters, settings, and emotions, demonstrating...
Instructional Video2:58
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Mastering Basic Parts of Speech: The Foundations of Language

K - 5th
This video provides a comprehensive overview of the essential parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. It explains how these elements combine to form correct and complete sentences, enhancing communication. The...
Instructional Video3:29
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Adjectives: Adding Color and Detail to Sentences

K - 5th
Discover the role of adjectives in language as they add description and detail to nouns. This video highlights how adjectives like 'blue', 'tall', 'scary', and 'small' enhance sentences, providing examples of adjectives placed both next...
Instructional Video2:57
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Verbs: Bringing Actions to Life in Sentences

K - 5th
Uncover the role of verbs, the action words in sentences, as this video explains how they complement nouns to form complete thoughts. Examples like "Haley eats the cupcake" and "Marcus runs" illustrate how verbs represent actions or...
Instructional Video4:43
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Pronouns: Simplifying Language in Sentences

K - 5th
This video explores the function of pronouns in English, highlighting their role in replacing nouns to streamline sentences. It demonstrates how pronouns like 'I', 'we', and 'they' can efficiently substitute for both proper and common...
Instructional Video5:48
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Understanding Nouns: The Building Blocks of Sentences

K - 5th
Dive into the world of nouns, exploring their role as fundamental elements of language. This video differentiates between common and proper nouns, illustrating how they represent people, places, things, or ideas. It emphasizes the...
Instructional Video3:28
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Adjectives in Action: Placement Matters

K - 5th
This video explores how adjectives function in sentences, focusing on their placement after verbs. Using examples like the colors of the American flag and the description of a hat, the lesson explains how adjectives can follow verbs to...
Instructional Video3:40
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Punctuation Perfection: Using Commas with Adjectives

K - 5th
This video focuses on the correct use of commas in sentences with multiple adjectives, using engaging examples like fish descriptions and seaweed hiding spots. It teaches how commas separate adjectives to make sentences clearer and...
Instructional Video6:28
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Mastering Adjective Order in Language

K - 5th
This video explains the importance of the correct order of adjectives in sentences. Using examples like "big, blue, beach umbrella" and "three tiny baby crabs," it illustrates how the sequence of adjectives like size, color, number, and...
Instructional Video5:42
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The World of Adjectives: Describing Our World

K - 5th
This video introduces the concept of adjectives, words that describe nouns, providing examples to illustrate their importance in language. It explains how adjectives can describe size, shape, color, quantity, and texture, enhancing our...
Instructional Video5:02
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Adverbs: Enhancing Actions and Descriptions in Language

K - 5th
Explore the function of adverbs, which describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, and provide details about when, where, how, or to what extent something happens. This video demonstrates through examples how adverbs like 'happily',...
Instructional Video5:58
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Using Antonym and Example Clues to Understand Unknown Words

K - 5th
Learn how readers can utilize antonym and example clues to decipher the meanings of unfamiliar words encountered while reading. Explore examples and practice identifying these types of context clues to enhance vocabulary comprehension....
Instructional Video5:02
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Understanding Words Using Context Clues

K - 5th
Learn how to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words by using context clues. Context clues provide hints within a sentence or paragraph that can help deduce the meaning of unknown words. Explore different types of context clues, such...
Instructional Video5:44
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Exploring the Role of Suffixes in English Language

K - 5th
Delve into the world of suffixes and their impact on the English language. Learn how suffixes like -ship, -ness, -ment, -ous, -ent, -and, -or, -ful, -less, -able, -ic, and -ize can transform root words, often changing their part of...
Instructional Video2:21
Extra English Practice

Learning English - How To Say 'I Agree' In Different Ways

9th - 12th
Here are 5 different ways to say "I agree." Try using them to add variety to your vocabulary. 1. Don't I know it! 2. (You're) preaching to the choir. 3. You can say that again! 4. You're telling me! 5. I couldn't agree more!
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Western Reserve Public Media: Power Words (Youngstown City School District)

K - 1st Standards
In this modeled lesson, second graders work in groups to create "video dictionaries," using a tablet and an app. Students complete graphic organizers then find images online to illustrate their words. They write their own sentences,...