Instructional Video1:24
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Adapting Language Choices (Register), Part 1

K - 5th
This standards-based lesson for beginner level English learners teaches how to use different registers based on who we are speaking with such as a teacher or adult vs. friends or family.
Instructional Video2:43
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Presenting, Part 3

K - 5th
This lesson for beginner English learners focuses on formal and informal presentation skills: Providing information to friends, using eye contact, presenting a familiar topic, informal or formal presentation language based on the setting.
Instructional Video0:59
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Foundational Literacy: Letter Knowledge, Part 1

K - 5th
Instructs newcomers and beginner level English learners about understanding and recognizing the 26 letters of the alphabet, their order and sounds
Instructional Video1:11
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Using Specific Language for Writing and Speaking, Part 1

K - 5th
This lesson demonstrates to English Learners how the use of specific words such as apple and banana vs. just fruit can make a sentence more descriptive. It also reviews the use of prefixes such as un-, re- and mis-.
Instructional Video1:29
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Offering Opinions, Negotiating, and Persuading, Part 1

K - 5th
This standards-based lesson for beginner level English learners covers a variety of collaborative listening and speaking topics: Offering and justifying opinions, negotiating with and persuading others in communicative exchanges.
Instructional Video1:32
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Offering Opinions, Negotiating, and Persuading, Part 3

K - 5th
This standards-based lesson for beginner level English learners covers a variety of collaborative listening and speaking topics: Offering and justifying opinions, negotiating with and persuading others in communicative exchanges.
Instructional Video3:04
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Foundational Literacy: Letter Knowledge, Part 2

K - 5th
Instructs newcomers and beginner level English learners about understanding and recognizing the 26 letters of the alphabet, their order and sounds
Instructional Video0:54
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Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 2

K - 5th
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson focuses on condensing ideas in simple ways (e.g., by compounding verbs, adding prepositional phrases, or through simple embedded clause) to create precise and detailed...
Instructional Video1:14
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Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 4

K - 5th
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson focuses on condensing ideas in simple ways (e.g., by compounding verbs, adding prepositional phrases, or through simple embedded clause) to create precise and detailed...
Instructional Video1:59
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Justifying and Arguing

K - 5th
This lesson for beginner English learners covers: Offering our opinion or letting others know how we think and feel; Identifying key phrases used in this context such as " I think", "I like", "I believe". Using modals such as “can”,...
Instructional Video1:11
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Adapting Language Choices (Register), Part 2

K - 5th
This standards-based lesson for beginner level English learners teaches how to use different registers based on who we are speaking with such as a teacher or adult vs. friends or family.
Instructional Video4:22
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A2 English Listening Practice - Childhood

Pre-K - Higher Ed
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for lower-level students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of childhood. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the screen...
Instructional Video0:25
Language Tree

Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Offering Opinions, Negotiating, and Persuading, Part 2

K - 5th
This standards-based lesson for beginner level English learners covers a variety of collaborative listening and speaking topics: Offering and justifying opinions, negotiating with and persuading others in communicative exchanges.
Instructional Video4:41
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A2 English Listening Practice - High School

Pre-K - Higher Ed
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for lower-level students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of high school. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the...
Instructional Video0:58
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Adapting Language Choices (Register), Part 3

K - 5th
This standards-based lesson for beginner level English learners teaches how to use different registers based on who we are speaking with such as a teacher or adult vs. friends or family.
Instructional Video0:45
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Foundational Literacy: Blending and Segmenting Sounds, Part 2

K - 5th
This lesson shows English learners how to blend sounds together to make a word, as well as to take apart the sounds of a word.
Instructional Video3:32
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A2 English Listening Practice - Learning

Pre-K - Higher Ed
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for lower-level students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of learning. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the screen...
Instructional Video0:57
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Foundational Literacy: Blending and Segmenting Sounds, Part 4

K - 5th
This lesson shows English learners how to blend sounds together to make a word, as well as to take apart the sounds of a word.
Instructional Video4:27
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A1 English Listening Practice - Daily Routine

Pre-K - Higher Ed
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for beginner students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of daily routine. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the...
Instructional Video3:47
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A1 English Listening Practice - Exercise

Pre-K - Higher Ed
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for beginner students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of exercise. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the screen to...
Instructional Video1:10
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Interacting with Written English, Part 2

K - 5th
This video lesson for beginner English learners teaches how to communicate using written words and sentences.
Instructional Video1:56
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Foundational Literacy: Syntax, Part 1

K - 5th
This lesson on basic sentence syntax helps English learners understand how the order of words matters to be able to put together a sentence using a subject, adjective, verb and direct object.
Instructional Video1:00
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Language Function and Construction: Personal Pronouns and Connecting Words, Part 3

K - 5th
This standards-based ELD lesson for beginner English learners focuses on applying knowledge of familiar language resources for referring in order to make texts more cohesive (e.g., how pronouns refer back to nouns in text); Applying...
Instructional Video3:21
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A2 English Listening Practice - Happiness

Pre-K - Higher Ed
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for lower-level students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of happiness. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the screen...