PBS
The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia is about far more than the adventures of a group of children in an imaginary kingdom. Find out what else it's about in a short Great American Read video.
PBS
Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska is the subject of a short PBS video that encourages viewers to read John Green's award-winning young adult novel about first love.
PBS
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams' hysterical send-up of bureaucratic thinking, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is the focus of a Great American Read video that urges viewers to vote for one of the greatest satires since Gulliver's Travels.
PBS
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Rather than windmills, Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces, battles against modernity. Find out why Professor Walter Isaacson thinks Toole's novel should get viewers' votes...
PBS
Ready Player One
Ready Player One has been praised as a novel that captures the vitality, the allure, and the essence of the virtual reality experience. Speakers in a short video share their rationale for why Ernest Clines' dystopian novel should be...
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Issues With Homophones
This lesson focuses on homophones; it defines the term and then discusses and provides examples for 9 word sets as follows: sea, bare, there, site, know, two, plain, be, and eye. Real Player is required.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Vocabulary
This is a collection of four videos about teaching vocabulary. The first is a principal discussing a school-wide approach to vocabulary improvement; the second is a director of the academic English at the University of California...
Education Development Center
Tv411: Video: What's a Thesaurus?
This video explains how to use a thesaurus and what information it gives you. [3:09]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Vocab Tip: Research the Meaning
This video lesson explains how to remember vocabulary by researching the meaning. [5:27] L.9-10.4c References, L.11-12.4 Word Meanings, L.11-12.4c References, L.11-12.4 Word Meanings
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: There, Their, and They're
This is one of the most frequently-confused trios in the English language. Follow along, and learn to suss out the differences between these three words.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Choosing Between Its and It's
David and Paige explain the meaning of two English words that look and sound very similar but act very different: _its_ and _it's_.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Synonym Substitution
This lesson explains how to substitute the synonym to check that the guessed meaning of unknown vocabulary is correct. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast with the lesson's content. [2:15]