1. Greetings and Courtesies
Description: The link contains video on words of greetings and courtesies, some good habits and manners, and learning how to introduce ourselves and ask permission.
Core Concepts: Vocabulary related to greetings and courtesies, good habits and manners, self-introduction, and asking permission.
2. Places in the School and Classroom Objects
Description: Introduction to names of places in the school and the classroom objects.
Core Concepts: Names of places in the school, and names of classroom objects.
3. Weather
Description: Introduces and describes the different kinds of weather.
Core Concepts: Vocabulary building.
Link: Video on weather
4. Color Song
Description: Introduces to a Song to reinforce ten color.
Core Concepts: Vocabulary building and song.
Link: Video on colors
5. Food
Description: Introduces to names and descriptions of the fruits and vegetables.
Core Concepts: Vocabulary building.
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6. Animals
Description: The video shows different types of animals, their names, habitat, babies and their sounds. There is also a brief description of the national animal, the Takin.
Core Concepts: Vocabulary building.
Link: Animals and their homes
7. Plants
Description: Introduces to Dr. Binocs series : An animation on parts of a plant and their brief functions.
Core Concepts: Vocabulary building.
8. Flowers
Description: Introduces to Animated rhyme describing ten different flowers.
Core Concepts: Vocabulary building.
Link: Flower songs for kids
9. Clothes
Description: Introduces to names of different types of clothes including our National dress.
Core Concepts: Vocabulary building.
Link: Video on clothes
10. Body Parts
Description: Introduces to the body parts and their functions. It also describes the body parts of animals.
Core Concepts: Vocabulary building.
Link: Video on body parts
11. Language Aloud
Description: Reading material for teachers on listening and speaking.
Core Concepts: Reading material for teachers on listening and speaking.
12. Basic Classroom Instructions
Description: The video describes some classroom instructions.
Core Concepts: Classroom instructions (come in, sit down, stand up, open/close your books, be quiet, go out, read, listen, repeat, write).
13. Alphabet Sounds Part 1
Description: Video exposes learners to 18 alphabet sounds. There is blending and segmenting demonstration using the 18 sounds
Core Concepts: Alphabet and their sounds, and phonemic awareness (CVC words).
14. Alphabet Sounds Part 2
Description: Video revises the 18 sounds learnt in part 1 and shows the rest of the 8 sounds of the alphabet. Some more blending and segmenting is explained with sounds learnt. Short texts are read using the blending skills.
Core Concepts: Alphabet and their sounds, and phonemic awareness (CVC words).
15. Parts of a Book 1
Description: Video is about 7minutes long showing the various parts of a book.
Core Concepts: Concept of book (parts: front, cover, title, spine, pages).
Link: Video on parts of a book
16. Parts of a Book 2
Description: Fun songs that explain the parts of a book.
Core Concepts: Concept of book, rhymes, and song.
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17. Brown Bear, Brown Bear
Description: Video reinforces the names of animals, colors and chorus lines.
Core Concepts: Vocabulary, read aloud and language structure.
Link: Video on brown bear
18. 12 Books by Bruce Larkins
Description: Video contains 12 books. The books have easy words and can be read along. Teacher may want to break/divide the video into parts and assign one book at a time.
Core Concepts: Read aloud, book talk, retelling story, sustained reading, view and read texts.
19. Safety Signs
Description: Video explains several safety signs.
Core Concepts: Vocabular, talk about text, and communication.
Link: Video on safety symbols
20. Fluency Hearing Punctuations
Description: Videos demonstrate how punctuation marks are read (for teachers only).
Core Concepts: Basic punctuation (full stop, question mark, exclamation mark, and comma).
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21. Capital Letter Song
Description: Fun animated song explaining when to use capital letters.
Core Concepts: Basic punctuation and songs.
Link: Video on capital letters
22. Capital Letter and Full Stop Song
Description: Sing-along that encourages children to identify capital letters and full stop in sentences.
Core Concepts: Basic punctuation and songs.
23. Letter Formation (Lower-Case)
Description: Video demonstrates how to hold a pencil, some prewriting and write all the lower-case letters.
Core Concepts: Appropriate writing posture, and alphabet (lower-case).
24. Letter Formation (Upper-Case)
Description: Video demonstrates how to write all the upper-case letters.
Core Concepts: Appropriate writing posture, and alphabet (upper-case).
25. Demonstrative Pronouns
Description: Video introduces the demonstrative pronouns and explains their usage.
Core Concepts: Pronoun.
26. Preposition
Description: Video explains prepositions (in, on, under) in the first video. In the second video the prepositions (besides, behind, in front of) are explained.
Core Concepts: Preposition.
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27. What are you doing?
Description: Video shows language pattern (present continuous tense). Learners are exposed to verbs in the present continuous tense and used in sentences.
Core Concepts: Language structure, present continuous tense, and verbs.
