PBS
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise | Maya Angelou and the 1993 Inaugural Poem: “On the Pulse of Morning”
President Bill Clinton asked Maya Angelou to deliver a poem as part of his 1993 Inaugural Ceremony. Class members watch a clip of Angelou's presentation, do a close reading of the full text of the poem, and respond to discussion...
PBS
The Call of the Wild
Jack London's books feature male characters, but that doesn't mean they're just for boys! Chelsea Clinton and Shanna Peeples discuss the underlying messages of love and sacrifice in The Call of the Wild, as well as the conflict of man...
EnglishClass101.com
May Day Explained
What is May Day? Why and when do we celebrate it? Find out with an informational video that details the holiday's background and today's celebratory traditions.
Curated OER
Our Classroom Constitution
Develop a system of classroom rules created by the kids, for the kids with this three-part instructional activity series on the US Constitution. After learning about the structure of the Constitution and the government it...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Developing Research Questions
This YouTube video lesson focuses on developing research questions by choosing topics of personal interest; filtering them for theme, time, and place; and choosing questions that are debatable, plausible, and consequential.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prewriting: Asking Questions
This video lesson focuses on asking questions as a prewriting activity. It explains why questioning is a good prewriting technique, discusses the types of questions to ask, focuses the questions to fit the topic, and provides a specific...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Anticipating and Responding to Readers' Questions
This tutorial focuses on audiences and anticipating and responding to their questions using 2 videos. The first video focuses on determining, defining, and discussing real, intended, general, and specific audiences and also audience...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Anticipating a Reader's Questions for Academic Writing
This screencast focuses on the need for and the importance of anticipating the reader's questions and answering them. It offers possible questions the reader could have, ways to answer questions well, and questions the writer should ask...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Asking Prereading Questions
This lesson focuses on prereading questions including their purpose, the three forms of questions, and examples. It uses the novel "The Great Gatsby" as an example. Real Player is required.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Pre Reading: Asking and Answering Questions
A teacher uses whole-class instruction and a graphic organizer to guide students as they formulate and answer questions related to their text.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing Observation Questions: Lesson 8
In this lesson, students see how to go about writing a question which can be answered through observation. It is 8 of 8 in the series titled "Writing Observation Questions."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Asking Questions After Reading
This screencast focuses on using post-reading questions to evaluate and improve understanding of a text. It offers general question ideas and a specific example of questions for "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. [3:37]
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Communication Skills
This Skillswise site focuses on communication skills. Included are a video about how to develop communication skills, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise sites from BBC are...
eSpark Learning
E Spark Learning: Integrating Information From Different Formats (Ri.6.7)
This video discusses how to use nonfiction text features to better understand what is being read. [4:19]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Generate Research Questions
In this lesson, you will learn how to generate burning questions to guide your research by asking, "What do I want to know more about?" [5:02]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Evaluating Details
This lesson focuses on how to evaluate details as you read a new book. It offers tips as you first begin to read as to what details may be important to track and questions to ask yourself as you continue to read to help focus on the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Starting With the Questions
This lesson discusses why when answering reading questions, it is helpful to read the questions before reading the passage. It offers this information in both text and audio formats.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Starting With the Text
This lesson offers reasons why some students prefer to read the text before reading the questions when asked to answer questions. It offers this information in text and audio formats.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Asking Questions as You Read
This screencast focuses on asking questions as you read, including: the purpose; types of questions; examples of questions for character, setting, and events; and a literary example. [2:44]
Curated Video
Youtube: Three Tiers of Classroom Conversation
This video helps analyze your current classroom discussions, and it proposes one way to advance to the level of the Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards. [3:49]