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Learning with Ms. Andy

41 episodes

Learning with Ms. Andy is a warm, animated elementary reading and writing channel. A friendly teacher and a rotating cast of characters (a reading Viking, a summarizing detective, an opinionated cowgirl, a talking notebook) walk grades 3 through 5 through one skill at a time. The reading half covers the moves that unlock any book: main idea and supporting details, theme, character traits, setting, point of view, plot structure, inference, and the five nonfiction text structures. The writing half runs full step-by-step units on opinion, informative, and personal-narrative essays, from prewriting to publishing, plus grammar, poetry, and figurative language. Every video pauses to let students practice, so a class can follow along and try each skill on the spot.

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What Learning with Ms. Andy covers

41 episodes in the library, tagged for 2nd–5th. Heaviest coverage: Reading & Writing (ELA) and Social-Emotional Learning. Between them they line up with 39 distinct standards across 2 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

2nd: 7
3rd: 41
4th: 41
5th: 41

Episodes per subject

Reading & Writing (ELA): 40
Social-Emotional Learning: 1

Common Core — ELA 37

RL.4.2Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
L.4.5Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
L.5.5Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
RI.4.2Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
RI.5.2Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
RL.5.2Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters respond to challenges; summarize the text.

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W.4.1Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
W.4.2Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
W.4.3Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
W.5.1Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
W.5.2Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
W.5.3Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
RI.4.5Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
RI.5.5Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.
RL.3.3Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
RL.4.1Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
RL.5.1Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
RI.3.8Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
RL.3.2Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details.
RL.4.3Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.
RL.5.4Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
RL.5.5Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
L.3.1Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
RH.6-8.5Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally).
RI.6.5Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
RL.3.4Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
RL.4.5Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.
RL.4.6Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.
RL.5.3Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.
RL.5.6Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.
RL.6.3Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
RL.6.5Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
W.3.3Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using descriptive details and clear event sequences.
W.4.4Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
W.4.5With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
W.5.4Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
W.5.5With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

CASEL (Social-Emotional) 2

CASEL.SM.1Manage strong emotions and impulses instead of acting on them right away.
CASEL.SM.2Use calming and stress-management strategies (deep breaths, a break, asking for space).

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