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Still image from: Alphabetical Order
6 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Still image from: Antagonist
6 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Orange background with a clip art drawing of a smiling, brown-haired woman on the left, and a stack of books on the right. Text in the middle of the screen reads, "How to ask and answer questions about stories. Teaching without frills."
1 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Closeup of a muppet-like lion, lioness, and cub leaning on stacks of books. Caption. Oh, I love it when you say, "Typewriter."
Between the Lions
Season 2 / Ep 36
29 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Closeup of muppet-like pigeons, beaks open, chirping. Caption. Sound of simultaneous chanting. Birds rule! Birds are cool.
Between the Lions
Season 1 / Ep 28
29 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 6
Still image from: Cause and Effect
5 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Medium shot of a man seated in the concave section of a small desk with several sheets of pale yellow paper laid out in front of him. Caption. Gareth as narrator. Put his writing desk at the right angle.
Creative Reading & Writing With Roald Dahl
Episode 1
14 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Still image from: Comparing and Contrasting!
7 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Still image from: Comparing Stories
9 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Still image from: Compound Words for Kids
11 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Woman in an office setting stands in front of camera, looking slightly down. Caption. And distributed them to blind people in the community.
Curiosity Quest
Season 6 / Ep 8
26 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: Decoding Words
9 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Early Childhood: Language and Literacy
Early Childhood
Episode 3
10 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Students work on laptop computers at their desks in a classroom setting. A teacher stands nearby using sign language. Text on image reads, "Procedures in written English."
FSDB Pineapple PD
Episode 3
3 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Blind child uses a guide to read braille as a woman seated nearby reaches out a hand to touch the tablet in front of him. Text on image reads, "Braille User." Caption. Let's put an "S" in front, what word is that.
FSDB Pineapple PD
Episode 6
3 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Children sit in a U-shaped formation. The teacher stands at the front of the classroom facing out and points towards an image projected on the screen behind her. Text on image reads, "Review Shared Inquiry Procedures."
FSDB Pineapple PD
Episode 4
4 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Child sits across from a tablet that is projecting her image like a reflection. Teacher sits next to child pointing down at words on a sheet of paper. Text on image reads, "Discuss Rubric."
FSDB Pineapple PD
Episode 1
3 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Still image from: Global English: Lesson 1
Global English
Episode 1
20 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Still image from: Global English: Lesson 2
Global English
Episode 2
19 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Still image from: Global English: Lesson 3
Global English
Episode 3
22 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Still image from: Global English: Lesson 5
Global English
Episode 5
27 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Still image from: Global English: Lesson 6
Global English
Episode 6
19 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Text on image reads, "Noun. A word that names a person, animal, place, thing or idea."
Grammar in Action
Episode 1
5 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Tower of giraffes walk across a grassy plain towards camera. Text below image reads, "giraffes" with the S in giraffes highlighted in green." Caption. The word giraffes is a plural noun.
Grammar in Action
Episode 2
7 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Closeup of 2 girls laughing. Caption. It's anything that you can think about.
Grammar in Action
Episode 3
4 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Seated Latino man and young girl gaze at a book as girl uses her index finger to follow words. Spanish caption. Araya. Así que cuando está ayudando a su hijo.
23 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Illustration of a dinosaur with a red and white ridge on its head and yellow fur on its back reclining on pillows and holding up an open book.
7 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Still image from: How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read? (About Reading)
5 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Light green background with a graphic of a story map on the right and text on the left that reads, "How to create a story map. Teaching without frills."
2 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Color illustration. Girl sits on her knees looking up at a man with large, elephant-like ears. He reaches towards shelves with small jars and bottles. Caption. Female reader as narrator. Everyone is whizzpopping.
Creative Reading & Writing With Roald Dahl
Episode 2
14 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Girl in floppy hat stands in the rain holding a lantern. She turns her head slightly to look at another child whose back faces camera. Caption. It sounds like you've been on this bridge before.
Into The Book
Episode 1
43 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Cartoon of a play room. Robo, J, 5, a pink robot hover next to a machine labeled, "Word Machine." Robot faces towards Blazin' Bill and Jake the Fire Engine parked nearby, appearing to watch the Word Machine. Caption. Today we will learn animal words.
Toys
Episode 3
6 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Computer image of 6 braille dot rows on a page. Text on image, reads. And, The, between row 3 and 4. Caption. Cell 1. Dot 6, the capital sign.
27 minutes
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Brain and same both have long 'A'!"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
57 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Can you find the apostrophe in 'let's'?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
55 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Can you find the long 'A' in play?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
56 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Can you find the long 'E' here?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
55 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Can you hear the 'A, R' in car?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
57 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Can you hear the 'O, R' in forest?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
56 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Can you hear the long 'A' in plane?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
58 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Can you hear the long 'I' in find?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
57 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Can you hear the long 'I' in night?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
56 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Can you hear the long 'I' in try?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
56 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Can you hear the short 'E' in head?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
57 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Can you hear the soft 'C' in celebrate?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
57 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "F, L and Y make fly!"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
56 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Heat rhymes with repeat!"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
58 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "How Many Syllables Are in Wonder?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
56 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Let's clap and count!"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
57 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Speak and green both have long 'E'!"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
56 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "What sound does 'U, R' make in measure?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
58 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "What sounds do you hear in partner?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
55 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "What's the sound of 'A, R' in sparkle?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
55 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "What's the sound of 'I, N, G' in playing?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
58 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "What's the sound of 'N, K' in think?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
58 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Title card in blue box on white background reads, "Which is heavier, 1 apple or 2 apples?"
Let's Learn
Season 0 / Ep
58 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Cartoon of a green alien with a large, round head, a yellow collar, and 2 black antenna smiling and looking at a purple cat. Caption. Using synonyms can make us better writers and speakers.
Vocab Lab: Exploring Vocabulary with Xylo and Coz
Season 0 / Ep 2
11 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Color illustration of children reading books on top of and around a stack of giant books. Title card reads, "Early readers. 12 to 24 months."
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 3
3 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Closeup of hair on the back of a person's head. Another person sits in an armchair in the background, looking toward camera.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 2
3 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Smiling woman stands in front of a fireplace. Her family is seated in front of her and looks up at her in a room with Christmas decorations.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 8
4 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Worm's eye view of a toddler in a onesie playing with trucks in the grass.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 5
3 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Woman and 2 boys lean over and look at a notebook as the woman writes in it.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 6
4 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Closeup of the midsection of a woman in a floral blouse. She sits at a desk and holds up a card with a photo of a mouth forming the "T, H" sound.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 9
4 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Closeup of a baby sitting on a woman's lap. Woman looks down and holds an open book in front of them.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 1
4 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
2 girls hold hands and face one another in a classroom setting.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 7
3 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Color illustration of children reading books on top of and around a stack of giant books. Title card reads, "Early readers. Print awareness."
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 4
3 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Toddler stands with his hands up at his shoulders as he smiles with his eyes closed in a room full of toys. Sliver of a woman's profile is at the edge of the frame with lips parted.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 10
3 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Cartoon of late-eighteen-hundreds man in a fists up boxing position. 2 arrows point at him read, "Conflict." A human hand writes a "C" in a third arrow. Title card reads, "Conflict in literature is any struggle between opposing forces, usually the main character against something else."
Literary Elements and Techniques
Episode 1
2 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
2 illustrations. Stick figure on an island with a palm tree. Next to this, hand draws a stick figure and buildings. Title card reads, "Location. The location of a story can determine parameters for a character's life and helps create mood and atmosphere."
Literary Elements and Techniques
Episode 2
2 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Hand holds a pen in the middle of writing out a title card, which reads, "Theme is the main or underlying meaning of a literary work. It's the message the reader takes away from the. Hand begins to write the word start.
Literary Elements and Techniques
Episode 3
2 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Main Idea
7 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Making Inferences
10 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Small hand rests next to a yellow spiral-bound book titled, "The Alphabet Book." Blue background is scattered with gold star stickers. Caption. Child as narrator. The Alphabet Book.
Marvie
Episode 8
2 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
2 twin blonde girls look down at their textbooks in front of them in a classroom setting. Caption. Narrator. A child's memory plays an increasing role in decoding.
59 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Waves breaking on shoreline. Caption. The beginning establishes the context of the story.
24 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
White text on screen that reads, "The teepee, or tent, is very tall," is above a drawing of a yellow teepee next to a gray wigwam next to 3 figures labeled, "tribe." Caption. Don't know the meaning of the word 'teepee'?
Vocab Lab: Exploring Vocabulary with Xylo and Coz
Season 0 / Ep 4
12 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Black and white photo of a manual typewriter with sheet of paper in roller that reads, Once upon a time.
20 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 7
Still image from: PicTrain: Colors of the Rainbow
PicTrain
Episode 1
2 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Young woman holds a red book in her lap, looking off with a pleasant expression. Behind her, an illustrated backdrop of a sofa chair that's made to look like she's sitting in it. Caption quote. To keep them away from the flame in the early stages.
Creative Reading & Writing With Roald Dahl
Episode 3
14 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "A Greyhound, A Groundhog"
Read Out Loud
Episode 21
1 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Bello the Cello"
Read Out Loud
Episode 15
4 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Bubblegum Princess"
Read Out Loud
Episode 3
7 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Chicks Rule!"
Read Out Loud
Episode 22
2 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Don't Let Auntie Mabel Bless the Table"
Read Out Loud
Episode 12
2 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Freddy the Frogcaster and the Huge Hurricane"
Read Out Loud
Episode 27
10 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Grandma's Purse"
Read Out Loud
Episode 10
3 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "I Am Peace"
Read Out Loud
Episode 18
2 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Mama's Belly"
Read Out Loud
Episode 7
3 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Marlo"
Read Out Loud
Episode 16
7 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Mary Had a Little Glam"
Read Out Loud
Episode 9
2 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "No Kimchi for Me"
Read Out Loud
Episode 4
10 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "No Peacocks"
Read Out Loud
Episode 8
4 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Noah Noasaurus"
Read Out Loud
Episode 20
3 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Paolo, Emperor of Rome"
Read Out Loud
Episode 14
9 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Peg + Cat--The Penguin Problem"
Read Out Loud
Episode 25
5 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Ping Meets Pang"
Read Out Loud
Episode 1
3 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Read the Book, Lemmings"
Read Out Loud
Episode 24
5 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Tails"
Read Out Loud
Episode 2
2 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "The Crayon Man"
Read Out Loud
Episode 17
7 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "The Nutcracker in Harlem"
Read Out Loud
Episode 28
6 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs"
Read Out Loud
Episode 6
7 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Read Out Loud: "Too Much! Not Enough!"
Read Out Loud
Episode 11
2 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Read Out Loud: Caron Levis Reads "This Way, Charlie"
Read Out Loud
Episode 23
11 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: Game Changers--The Story of Venus and Serena Williams
Read Out Loud
Episode 26
9 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: Karma Wilson Read "Bear Snores On"
Read Out Loud
Episode 13
5 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Read Out Loud: Robing Newman Reads "Hildie BItterpickles Needs Her Sleep"
Read Out Loud
Episode 5
5 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Reading Comprehension
13 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Man holds a child on his lap as they read from a book in front of them. Spanish caption. Araya. Los niños disfrutan de compartir libros.
27 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Still image from: Ready Set Draw! "Tea With Oliver"
Ready Set Draw!
Season 0 / Ep 28
2 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Woman with pursed lip smile holds fists up to her chest. Behind her is a photo inset of 4 cows looking down at camera. Statewide Outreach Center logo in bottom left corner eclipses text that reads, "All look happy to see me!"
Speakaboos
Episode 1
3 minutes
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Woman smiles with 1 hand over her head and the other in front of her. Behind her is a photo inset of a girl looking down beneath a snowy tree and another of 2 boys wearing goggles in a pool. Statewide Outreach Center logo is in bottom left corner.
Speakaboos
Episode 3
2 minutes
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Woman smiles with her mouth open wide and points to herself. Behind her is a photo inset of a smiling girl with her hair blowing in the wind. Above the girl is a circle illustrating the 4 seasons. Statewide Outreach Center logo is in bottom left corner.
Speakaboos
Episode 2
3 minutes
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Woman is signing in front of an image of a woman and 2 children holding up objects they're making out of clay. Text on image reads, "Today is Thursday. On Thursday I go to art class."
2 minutes
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Closeup of a cartoon purple cat wearing a yellow hat and black over-the-head headphones. Black antennae from aliens are visible on either side of the cat. Caption. Which you can usually find by sounding the word out.
Vocab Lab: Exploring Vocabulary with Xylo and Coz
Season 0 / Ep 5
14 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Cartoon of a woman facing camera speaking. She stands next to and points to text on a banner that reads, "Story elements for kids. What is a character? Teaching without frills." A golden retriever sits across from the woman by the banner.
Story Elements for Kids
Episode 2
2 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Red locomotive sits in a grassy field next to a wooden rail fence.
Shawn and Team
Episode 6
1 hours 5 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Cartoon of a sandy beach in front of palm trees. A large purple clam shell on the beach is slightly open, and a bright green oval has green light shooting out of it. Caption with elongated word. Zap.
Vocab Lab: Exploring Vocabulary with Xylo and Coz
Season 0 / Ep 3
17 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Color illustration. Vignettes of children doing various hobbies such as looking through a magnifying glass at an ant farm, examining bugs, and counting coins.
9 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Cartoon of the side of Max the Train driving along the tracks, surrounded by bright purple and green pillars.
Toys
Episode 5
21 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Still image from: Verbs
10 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Closeup of a video game. Text that says Prince of Sun has spoken appears on the screen. Caption. Have to choose between T,V and reading.
6 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Still image from: What Is Context?
11 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Labeled pictures provide visuals for a sentence. Boxes with words appear below.
0 minutes
Grade Level: 1 - 3
Cartoon of horse, bear, lion, giraffe, ram, monkey, and pig running. Caption. In a flash, every beast in the zoo was stampeding.
9 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
C, G, I cartoon of a hallway with red carpet. The right side is lined with bookshelves filled with colorful books, the left side has a fireplace with a fire, a few taxidermy animal heads above, and 2 suits of armor holding books on either side.
Vocab Lab: Exploring Vocabulary with Xylo and Coz
Season 0 / Ep 1
14 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
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