Series

Mind Blooming

15 episodes

Mind Blooming is a set of short animated ELA lessons where one host stands at a whiteboard and unpacks a single reading or vocabulary idea with worked examples on screen. This flagship gathers the reading-comprehension and word-study spine: finding the main idea and theme, tracing cause and effect, sequence, and story elements, sorting an author’s purpose, and building word power through synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes, compound words, similes, metaphors, and context clues for figuring out an unfamiliar word. Each runs one to four minutes and gives a class shared vocabulary before they read, so a teacher can drop one in to introduce or review a skill.

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what this series covers

What Mind Blooming covers

15 episodes in the library, tagged for 1st–6th. Heaviest coverage: Reading & Writing (ELA). Between them they line up with 20 distinct standards across 1 framework.

Episodes per grade

1st: 5
2nd: 10
3rd: 13
4th: 11
5th: 5
6th: 3

Episodes per subject

Reading & Writing (ELA): 15

Common Core — ELA 20

L.4.4Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 4 reading and content.
L.1.5With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.2.5Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.5.5Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
RF.3.3Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
RI.3.3Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.

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L.1.4Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content.
L.4.5Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
L.6.5Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
RI.1.4Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
RI.2.2Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.2.6Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
RI.3.2Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
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).
RI.6.6Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
RL.1.3Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RL.2.5Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
RL.3.3Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
RL.4.2Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; 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.