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Season 1

  • S01E01 Activating Prior Knowledge Before Reading

    • October 9, 1984
    • PBS

    'Storylords' captures students' imagination through fantasy interwoven with reading comprehension strategies. Students will identify with Norbert as he learns how to be a Storylord and saves the citizens of Mojuste from the evil Thorzuul.

  • S01E02 Connecting What You Know with What’s On the Page

    • October 10, 1984
    • PBS

    Stumped by Marko's riddle from Thorzuul, Norbert benefits from Mrs. Framish's lesson about making inferences about a wordless picture book. 'Storylords' captures students' imagination through fantasy interwoven with reading comprehension strategies. Students will identify with Norbert as he learns how to be a Storylord and saves the citizens of Mojuste from the evil Thorzuul.

  • S01E03 Knowing When You Don’t Know (In Your Head)

    • October 11, 1984
    • PBS

    Norbert uses Mrs. Framish's STRARO strategy (Stop, Think, Reread, Ask, and Read Over) to help an artist paint. 'Storylords' captures students' imagination through fantasy interwoven with reading comprehension strategies. Students will identify with Norbert as he learns how to be a Storylord and saves the citizens of Mojuste from the evil Thorzuul.

  • S01E04 Knowing When You Don’t Know (On the Page)

    • October 12, 1984
    • PBS

    Mandy's portrayal of a pterodactyl suffers because the word is not explained at the beginning of the script she's reading. 'Storylords' captures students' imagination through fantasy interwoven with reading comprehension strategies. Students will identify with Norbert as he learns how to be a Storylord and saves the citizens of Mojuste from the evil Thorzuul.

  • S01E05 Directed Reading-Thinking Activity

    • October 13, 1984
    • PBS

    Mandy follows Norbert to Mojuste, where Thorzuul has turned ten children to stone for failing his reading test. 'Storylords' captures students' imagination through fantasy interwoven with reading comprehension strategies. Students will identify with Norbert as he learns how to be a Storylord and saves the citizens of Mojuste from the evil Thorzuul.

  • S01E06 Question-Answer Relationships

    • October 14, 1984
    • PBS

    The apprentice Storylords show the Gwynn twins how to combine ideas from two letters to find one answer. 'Storylords' captures students' imagination through fantasy interwoven with reading comprehension strategies. Students will identify with Norbert as he learns how to be a Storylord and saves the citizens of Mojuste from the evil Thorzuul.

  • S01E07 Decoding Words in Context

    • October 15, 1984
    • PBS

    Norbert leads Mandy through strategies to decode the word envelope. Mandy helps Zandro pronounce and understand dandelion. 'Storylords' captures students' imagination through fantasy interwoven with reading comprehension strategies. Students will identify with Norbert as he learns how to be a Storylord and saves the citizens of Mojuste from the evil Thorzuul.

  • S01E08 Inferring Word Meaning in Context

    • October 16, 1984
    • PBS

    When Norbert's sick, Jason tells him about the word detective game the class played. Mandy guides Caroma through contextual clues for painting a magical picture. 'Storylords' captures students' imagination through fantasy interwoven with reading comprehension strategies. Students will identify with Norbert as he learns how to be a Storylord and saves the citizens of Mojuste from the evil Thorzuul.

  • S01E09 Story Mapping

    • October 17, 1984
    • PBS

    Mandy and Norbert are afraid to criticize Thorzuul's story. When they apply their knowledge of story structure, they see it is not a story at all. 'Storylords' captures students' imagination through fantasy interwoven with reading comprehension strategies. Students will identify with Norbert as he learns how to be a Storylord and saves the citizens of Mojuste from the evil Thorzuul.

  • S01E10 Pronoun Anaphora

    • October 18, 1984
    • PBS

    With Norbert zapped motionless, Mandy must infer links between pronouns and their antecedents to free her brother. 'Storylords' captures students' imagination through fantasy interwoven with reading comprehension strategies. Students will identify with Norbert as he learns how to be a Storylord and saves the citizens of Mojuste from the evil Thorzuul.

  • S01E11 Identifying Main Idea & Details

    • October 19, 1984
    • PBS

    The apprentices must read and organize a set of sentence strips into a paragraph that makes sense. 'Storylords' captures students' imagination through fantasy interwoven with reading comprehension strategies. Students will identify with Norbert as he learns how to be a Storylord and saves the citizens of Mojuste from the evil Thorzuul.

  • S01E12 Integrating Comprehension Strategies

    • October 20, 1984
    • PBS

    Thorzuul startles Norbert and Mandy with a threat: If they can't make a sensible paragraph out of his four sentences, he'll turn them into permanent statues. Applying several reading strategies, they succeed. 'Storylords' captures students' imagination through fantasy interwoven with reading comprehension strategies. Students will identify with Norbert as he learns how to be a Storylord and saves.