Doodle Splash combines the process of drawing with analytical thinking by pairing online drawing with writing prompts that encourage students to make connections between their visual designs and the text.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
This video segment from Between the Lions shows the practice of sounding out the word rocket part by part, blending sounds together to form a word.
Material Type: Lecture, Reading
This video segment from Between the Lions is an original, animated story based on the popular folktale Stone Soup.íń Aliens visit a town and request food but nobody wants to share. The aliens decide to make stone soup and everybody decides to contribute ingredients for the communal meal. The video emphasizes the "s" sound and features the following words: sweeping, sidewalks, sifting, sandboxes, sorting, socks, sudden, sky, saw, spaceship, sight, sorts, secret, sorry, special, stone, soup, supper, sounds, strange, simmering, seven, seconds, salt, since, somewhere, spoon, savory, soy sauce, second, some, slurp, still, satisfied, squash, succotash, salsa, satsumas, stuff, superb, sublime, simply stupendous, succulent, superior, salad, salmon, sausage, schnitzel, stuffed, and sole. This video segment provides a resource for Fluency, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Language and Vocabulary Development, Letter Knowledge Awareness, and Phonological Awareness. ***Access to Teacher's Domain content now requires free login to PBS Learning Media.
Material Type: Lecture
The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Using Construct-a-Word, students learn letter-sound correspondence by combining a beginning letter or blend to a word ending to create words.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
The Plot Diagram is an organizational tool focusing on a pyramid or triangular shape, which is used to map the events in a story. This mapping of plot structure allows readers and writers to visualize the key features of stories.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
This video segment from Between the Lions is a music video featuring Fonix in a blue performance area singing about the joys of the aríń sound. Appearing on screen are the letters and words: a, r, Martha, Mark, park, gargle, car, hard, start, smart, cart, far, star, and part. This video segment provides a resource for Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Letter Knowledge Awareness, and Phonological Awareness. ***Access to Teacher's Domain content now requires free login to PBS Learning Media.
Material Type: Lecture
This video segment from Between the Lions is an original, animated retelling of the classic Aesops fable in which a grasshopper sings and dances while the ants gather food for winter. The grasshopper then has nothing to eat once the cold weather comes. In the end, the ants invite the grasshopper inside for a meal, and they all dance a merry mambo. Featured "m" words include: many, moons, moody, Murray, Marge, merry, Melanie, mangos, melons, mambo, music, moving, mushrooms, macaroni, managed, milk, Myrtle, mind, middle, month, mountains, melt, meanwhile, munched, moment, make, move, motioned, meatballs, mashed potatoes, magnificent, and meal. This video segment provides a resource for Fluency, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Letter Knowledge Awareness, and Phonological Awareness. ***Access to Teacher's Domain content now requires free login to PBS Learning Media.
Material Type: Lecture
The "Into the Book" web site is designed to help elementary students practice eight reading comprehension strategies through playful interactive activities. The site focuses on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. "Behind the Lesson," the teacher area of the site, provides information, lesson plans and other resources for teachers.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
In this video segment from WILD TV, a guide describes how to camouflage a personë_í__ body to avoid being detected in the wilderness.
Material Type: Lecture
This video segment from Between the Lions uses a line of laughing Lions to help build vocabulary and illustrate the meaning of words that typically challenge young children.
Material Type: Lecture
Fact Fragment Frenzy provides elementary students with an online model for finding facts in nonfiction text, then invites students to find facts in five sample passages.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Supporting inquiry-based research projects, the Animal Inquiry interactive invites elementary students to explore animal facts and habitats using writing prompts to guide and record their findings.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
The interactive explores the ways that poets choose line breaks in their writing. After viewing the demonstration, students are invited to experiment with line breaks themselves.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
In this video segment from Nature, scientists work to discover why bees are disappearing.
Material Type: Lecture
This segment from American Experience: Simple Justice captures the legal issues and opening arguments in Brown v. Board of Education.
Material Type: Case Study, Lecture
The Fractured Fairy Tale tool encourages students to create their own fractured fairy tales.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Students use this online tool to create an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
