Watch a video of a kindergarten student fluently reading, and rereading to more accurately read punctuation.
This video helps parents determine if their kindergartner is on track in reading.
This video helps parents determine if their kindergartner is learning from what they are reading.
This video helps parents determine if their kindergartner reader has great understanding.
It’s Graduation Day at the Service Dog School, and you’re invited to the ceremony! Find out how these highly trained pups help the people who need them most in Dog Days of Summer, the latest episode of YourClassical Storytime — with narration by Scott Blankenship and Julie Amacher, illustrations by E.J. Thompson, and classical music just right for this special occasion. Find out more about real-life service dogs and how they use classical music as part of their training: “Classical music has gone to the dogs at Can Do Canines.”
Once upon a time, there was a happy-go-lucky dog named Apollo. He seemed to have a lot going for himself, but he wanted more — especially when it came to food. Find out what happened to our greedy pup in The Dog and the Bone, the latest episode of YourClassical Storytime, featuring music by Edward Elgar and original illustrations by Nancy Carlson.
When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place -- a pigeon! But you've never met one like this before.
Students will engage with primary source documents to explore the reasons behind memorializing people in public art. Students will craft written or oral statements to support an argument in favor of installing a statue of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon, Philo T. Farnsworth, or Brigham Young in National Statuary Hall.
Draft letters ask students to think critically about their writing on a specific assignment before submitting their work to a reader. This lesson explains and provides models for the strategy.
Children will act out the story by copying the actions the little girl has done while wearing different shoes to help demonstrate the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Children will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. Children will be able to identify body parts, review and label several color words, and use rhyming to predict what will be painted next.
Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read. They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end.
Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read. They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. Mel is learning to fly and perseveres until she is successful.
Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read. They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end.
Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read. They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end.
(Mixed Crafts)
Christmas tale based on the Catalan tradition of the magic Yule log which children fatten up days before Christmas so that on Christmas day, with its appetite satisfied, they hit it with a stick and it releases all the toys it has inside.
In this story, curious Caroline creeps inside the hollow Yule Log intent on finding out the mystery of where Christmas presents come from and gets herself into trouble for going where she shouldn't. There she befriends another prisoner, the ogre Ot, and together they make their escape.
(Mixed Media)
Poor Cinderella is treated like a maid by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters. One day her Fairy Godmother appears and with a wave of her magic wand allows Cinderella to go to the ball where she meets the Prince. He falls madly in love with her at first sight. But Cinderella must be home by midnight. As she flees the palace, she loses her slipper on the stair and the Prince searches the kingdom to find the person whose foot fits into the slipper and make her his wife.
(Cut-Outs)
After making Ambrose an orphan, Death returns to become the baby's godfather. Ambrose grows up to be the best doctor in the country, but he is aided in his diagnoses by Death. If the patient is to recover Death stands at the head of the patient's bed but if the patient is to die, he stands at the foot of the bed. One day Dr. Ambrose is summoned by the King to cure his ill daughter Camilla. Dr. Ambrose and Camilla fall in love at first sight and when he sees death stand at the foot of the bed, he turns the bed around in a flash. Dr. Ambrose's dirty trick on Death changes the patient's fate and outrages Death. The doctor loses all his powers, but Princess Camilla recovers. Soon after, they marry and live happily ever after because Ambrose no longer has Death for a Godfather.
(Creative Crafts)
Fearless Peter is not afraid of anything, but he wants to find out what fear is so he sets out in search of it. He comes to a country ruled by three kings and fearlessly helps them kill three seemingly invincible giants. He then steals a magic salve from a witch who uses it to revive the giants. To prove the salve's powers he tells the kings to cut off his head, certain that they can re-attach it with the salve, but the kings accidentally attach his head to his feet. Terrified, Peter asks them to cut his head off again and attach it to the right place. Peter can return home because he finally had a taste of fear.
(Oils & Ink)
Goldilocks goes out for a walk in the forest and comes across a pretty cabin. Being a curious young girl, she enters the house and makes herself right at home, but she is in for quite a surprise when the three bears who live there return home and find her sleeping in Baby Bear's bed.