Dream You'll Be!
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Spark inspiration and discover all the exciting careers children dream about in this whimsical picture book.
I Am
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There are many ways to feel—and those feelings make us behave in silly, thoughtful, worried, frustrated, and angry ways.
Never Let A Unicorn Scribble
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A girl tries to teach her unicorn to scribble, despite being told not to, and uses imagination to make it magical.
Making Mistakes When You Read
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Ollo notices how sentences sound to see if the words make sense. If they don't make sense, he reads the sentence again until he gets the words correct.
Making Predictions
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Ollo makes predictions about what will happen next in the story. Pictures and text in the story can help inform these educated guesses.
How Illustrations Show Mood
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Reya and Sandy look at the pictures in the book to understand the mood of the story.
How Illustrations Show Plot
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In this video, Sandy and Peck study the pictures in a book to help understand the story better.
Different Points Of View
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Reya and Sandy explore how characters in a story can have different points of view.
Identifying The Tone Of A Character's Dialogue
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Reya describes how the story's character sounds by reading clues in their dialog.
Beginning, Middle, And End
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Reya looks at the three parts of a story: beginning, middle, and end.
Tad!
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This heartwarming and tender tale about courage and growth, featuring a special tadpole named Tad.
Visualizing While You Read
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In this video, see how we use words in a story to create pictures in our minds.
What To Do With An Unknown Word
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Ollo practices learning unknown words by reading a story, sounding out the words, and looking at the pictures and text for clues.
How Characters Change In A Story
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Reya observes how main characters can change over the course of the story by noticing what they look like, see, and do over time.
How To Learn About Characters
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Listen as Reya and Peck learn about the main characters in a story by noticing what the characters look like, say, and do.
Identifying The Setting Of A Story
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In this video, Sandy and Reya talk about the pictures and words that help identify the setting of a story.
All About Characters
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In this video, Reya talks about how characters in a story think, feel, act, and change.
Finding The Lesson Of A Story
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In this video, Ollo and Reya read a book together to find the lesson in the story. They use the problem in the story to find the hint about the lesson.
Summarizing A Story
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In this video, listen as Reya retells the story of the Three Little Pigs by describing what the main characters wanted, what the problem was, and how it was solved.
Retelling A Story
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In this video, help Peck retell the story of Goldilocks by putting key details in order with first, next, and last.
Identifying Important Information In A Story
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When retelling a story, it's important to include the important things that describe what happened.