The purpose of the video lesson is to outline effective reading strategies that good readers use. They include: predicting, making connections, visualizing, monitoring your own comprehension, determining importance, making inferences, questioning, summarizing and synthesizing. The accompanying handout is a survey in which students reflect on their use of the reading strategies.

The purpose of the video lesson is to review drawing inferences (reading between the lines). The accompanying handout has the student read a short story. They practice looking at the story details and then drawing inferences from the evidence. The assignment can be completed with any story that requires the reader to draw inferences.

The purpose of the video lesson is to review how to correctly write dialogue. The accompanying handouts: (1)outline tips and rules for writing dialogue and (2)provide students with practice at writing dialogue, brainstorm interesting verbs and adverbs, and complete an assignment in which they write a short dialogue for a scenario provided.

The purpose of the video lesson is to outline how to write a metaphor. The accompanying handout has students look at metaphors in their readings and then write some of their own.

The purpose of the video lesson is to detail the important components to keep in mind when writing a personal narrative. Students are asked to look at a story that is an example of a good personal narrative and then write one of their own.

The purpose of the video lesson is to outline how to write compare and contrast paragraphs. The accompanying handout provides a compare and contrast paragraph graphic organizer that students can use to complete a paragraph in which they compare and contrast the topic given or ones of their choice.

The purpose of the video lesson is to outline the purpose of conversation groups and how to engage in an effective conversation group.

The purpose of the video lesson is to outline how to design a brochure based on examples collected. The assignment is to create a four-fold brochure on a historical site.

The purpose of the video lesson is to outline how to make an effective personal response. It provides a graphic organizer in which students consider their intellectual and emotional responses to a reading selection or topic. They then use their point-form jot notes and expand them into a connected personal response to a literary selection.

The purpose of the video lesson is practice writing a personification poem using a frame. The accompanying handout outlines the structure of the poem and asks students to brainstorm ideas and write a poem of their own.

The purpose of the video lesson is review what a tanka poem is, look at examples of tanka poems and have students write tanka poems of their own.

This resource offers video lessons on each of the letter sounds as outlined by the Jolly Phonics program. The video lessons cover the sound and action for each sound , as well as stories and letter formation.

Additional phonetic rules covered are: magic "e", vowels sounds of y, and the rule "when 2 vowels go walking".

This video lesson reviews contractions, what they mean and how they are made. The accompanying handouts provide students with multiple opportunities to practice identifying and writing contractions.

This video lesson reviews and has students identify nouns and verbs. The accompany handouts provide practice with verbs and nouns and writing sentences containing them.

These worksheets help students explore and practice making plurals by adding an s to the end of many words.

This video lesson reviews "ed" word endings and the three sounds that they make . The accompanying handout has students sort words according to the sound of the "ed".

This video lesson reviews the "ing" ending. The accompanying handout has students form "ing" words and draw pictures of what they drew.

This video lesson introduces the drop"e" rule when adding "ing" to words. The accompanying handout provides practice with adding "ing" to a word that ends in "e".

This video lesson reviews using adjectives to describe nouns, as well the use of precise verbs and sentence endings (phrase) when creating interesting sentences. The accompanying handout has students manipulate sentence parts to make sentences.

This graphic organizer helps grade one students plan a story with:
- A title or topic
- Beginning: Make it sound interesting!
- Middle: 3 details!
- Ending: Something for reader to remember!