Curated Video
Sequencing and making a story mountain: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'
Pupil outcome: I can sequence a story and use it to retell. Key learning points: - Retelling a story helps us to remember main events in a story and use storytelling language, such as 'Once upon a time'. - Story mountains sequence the...
Curated Video
Sequencing and making a story mountain: 'The Magic Porridge Pot'
Pupil outcome: I can sequence a story and use it to retell. Key learning points: - Retelling a story helps to remember the main events and use storytelling language, such as 'Once upon a time,' - Story mountains map out the beginning,...
Curated Video
Adding Details to Show the Sequence of Events in a Story
In this video, the teacher guides students through the process of adding details to their writing to show the sequence of events that lead to solving a problem. Using the example of a character saving a kitten, the teacher demonstrates...
Curated Video
Sequencing 'Yoshi the Stonecutter' and making connections
Pupil outcome: I can make connections linked to my own experiences and sequence events in a story. Key learning points: - Traditional tales often have a theme that is central to the story. - The theme often leads to a moral that can...
Curated Video
Sequencing and making connections about 'The Children of Lir'
Pupil outcome: I can make connections linked to my own experiences and sequence events in a story. Key learning points: - Traditional tales try to teach us a lesson about something. - Thinking about those lessons can help us change...
Oxford Online English
How to Talk About the Past in English
In this lesson, you can learn how to talk about the past in English. Talking about the past includes many things. Do you want to talk about interesting experiences you’ve had, tell a funny story, or talk about something you regret in the...
Curated Video
Sequencing a Story
"Sequencing a Story" explains how to sequence key ideas in chronological order.
Curated Video
A Gift for Sam: Plot
A Gift for Sam: Plot describes the sequence of events that take place in a story, called the plot.
Oxford Online English
How to Talk About the Past in English
In this lesson, you can learn how to talk about the past in English. Talking about the past includes many things. Do you want to talk about interesting experiences you’ve had, tell a funny story, or talk about something you regret in the...
Curated Video
Using a Story Mountain to Revise Your Narrative Writing
In this video, the teacher explains how writers organize the sequence of events in their writing to create a natural and logical flow. They introduce the concept of a story mountain and guide students through the process of planning and...
Makematic
What happened next
"Sequencing helps children understand the main idea of a story and how changing the order can change the meaning and outcome. In this activity, children aged 3-7 will illustrate a sequence of events in a story and organise them in ways...
Curated Video
Time Order Words
“Time Order Words” examines the importance of time and sequence in a narrative or explanatory text.
MinutePhysics
The Man Who Corrected Einstein
This video is about how Russian physicist Aleksandr Fridman corrected Albert Einstein about the expansion of the universe. Einstein thought that general relativity implied that space had to be static and unchanging, but he had made a...
NativLang
The complicated linguistics behind how the Maya talk about the past
The Maya language has no past tense, so how do they tell stories? I'll explain the complex way this tenseless language talks about events in the past. Previous video about Maya tenselessness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttq0S4cuIHA...
Curated Video
Using Verb Tenses to Show Flashbacks in Writing
In this video, the teacher explains how writers use different verb tenses to convey changes in the sequence of events and specifically focuses on using verb tenses to show flashbacks in writing. The teacher provides examples, guides the...
Curated Video
Thinking from different perspectives: 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
Pupil outcome: I can think from the perspective of different characters. Key learning points: - Expressions and actions of characters help us to infer how a character feels, such as when Jack races up the beanstalk - Recalling parts of a...
Cerebellum
The Elements Of Fiction - Types Of Literature
The Elements of Fiction - Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson . These are just three of the renowned authors whose work is cited in The Elements of Fiction, which explores: Plot elements, character, conflict, flashback,...
World Science Festival
The Moth: Life on a Mobius Strip by Janna Levin
Physicist and WSF alum Janna Levin is accustomed to the mind-bending turns that the theoretical far reaches of the universe can take. But for all the unpredictability of space-time, it was life here on Earth that threw her for a loop....
Curated Video
Structuring Narrative Writing with Transitions
In this video, the teacher guides students on how to structure their narrative writing with a clear sequence of events and ideas. They explain the importance of using transitional words and phrases to signal the movement from one event...
Learn German with Herr Antrim
Plusquamperfekt (Past Perfekt Tense) | Passiv Deutsch Grammatik B1 | B1German Grammar Lesson
Plusquamperfekt (Past Perfekt Tense) - B1 German Grammar Lesson for Beginners Ever wondered how to perfectly narrate events that happened before other past events? This German grammar lesson is your gateway to understanding the...
Weird History
Chernobyl-Everything That Went Wrong
It’s hard for those of us in the modern era to grasp the true horror of the Chernobyl disaster. Even a deep dive into the Chernobyl meltdown timeline can only reveal so much about the very real, visceral consequences of the event....
Curated OER
Color My Day
Use this video to get children thinking about a series of events that can be turned into a picture story. They can view a little girl using art to tell the story of her day in the park.
British Council
Romeo and Juliet
An engaging video featuring William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is accompanied by six activities designed to reinforce vocabulary, story elements, and comprehension. Scholars match words to pictures, place events in sequential order,...
British Council
Hamlet 1: His Father's Ghost
The lessons in Shakespeare's Hamlet transcend language and culture. An actor describes his view of the play in a short video accompanied by tasks, part of the Shakespeare English exercises series. While listening to the video,...