Build your language arts with Cedric and Abby. They define the word and then show all of the items that contain water but are not canteens. Abby realizes that the water thing she has with her is actually a canteen.

Chandra Wilson tells Elmo about her favorite things including carrots, the song “Shout,” and dancing.

Dennis Franz shares his special moment on Sesame Street involving reciting the alphabet. Learner can watch this video and then figure out a creative way to recite the alphabet using props, visual aids, or other devices.

Kids love making animal sounds, and they love Elmo! Dorothy the fish and Elmo talk to several children about wild animals. Each child tells Dorothy about a wild animal and then shows her what that animal does. They depict a lion, an...

Games are the feature of this film. Children share their favorite games in this short clip. This could be used before a lesson on games.

“A” is for astronaut! Build phonemic awareness and letter recognition with this short clip. An actual astronaut shares the letter "A" and makes the /a/ sound.

Who doesn't love singing the Alphabet? Sing the alphabet with the "Bookaneers" and a giant squid. Tip: Have your class sing the Alphabet as different animals.

Teach your class to pay attention to how a word looks and sounds when working with conjugating irregular verbs into the past tense. The video provides several examples of incorrectly and correctly spelled irregular verbs.

Begin the alphabet with a cute video featuring the letter a. Kids can see several puppets naming things that start with a, including an astronaut, an axe, and armour.

Two strategies for decoding unfamiliar words are featured on a worksheet that illustrates how to use the parts of words (prefix, root, and suffix) and context to determine meaning. Examples are included as is a guided practice exercise.

Introduce your young writers to the five-paragraph expository essay format with a four-page activity that uses color codes to model for writers how to craft the essay. Although designed to prepare writers for the GED, the approach can be...

What do the words pizza, broccoli, and ciao have in common? Why they are all English words that originally came from Italian. Ask your middle schoolers to guess the origins of a list of words by matching the word with the language from...

Need a key to unlock writer's block? Introduce your writers to four easy steps that will release them from their mental prison. The brainstorming worksheet, designed to set free their imaginations, even has an answer key.

Assess your kids' reading skills with a straightforward reading comprehension exercise. Pupils read a story and answer 12 multiple choice questions about the story. Each question is labeled with one of 12 reading strategies, such as...

Identifying the theme of a piece is crucial to understanding. Using the play Romeo and Juliet as an example, the concept of theme is explored in a video of a classroom lecture.

Grandpa Beetle teaches the little beetles that being little isn't a problem by telling the story of Morris the Midget Moose. When Morris teams up with Balsam, a small-antlered moose, the two make an unbeatable team. The moral of the...

The gerund is described as just like the present participle by Yossarian the Grammarian. Look for the -ing ending to discover where the gerund is in the sentence.

John Barrowman recites "Bumposaurus" for your bedtime story. The moral, "It's ok to be different" comes across clearly in this story of a short-sighted dinosaur who simply needs glasses.

Identify the subject of the verb and the agent (whatever is doing the action), and you will be able to discern if your sentence is written in the active or passive voice. Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates by writing examples of each...

What does a dad do? Listen to this song to find out. In this song, dad plants veggies, plays basketball, reads books, and teaches his children to ride bikes. Ask your preschoolers what types of things their dads do.

Dance starts with the letter “D!” Elmo, Big Bird, and Snuffy dance with the letter “D.” This is a parody of the old iPod commercial.

Abby Caddaby plays the part of Alice in a Sesame Street version of Alice in Wonderland. This is a short clip showing only one minute of the entire adaptation.