The School of Life
Jane Austen
Jane Austen wrote about strong women, social boundaries, and relationship dynamics in the early 19th century to educate her readers about the state of humanity. Learn more about the themes woven throughout her works,...
Curated OER
Mining Literature for Deeper Meanings
Literature teachers often ask their classes to find the big ideas in a text, but how does a writer do this successfully? Show the video to give your pupils some steps to keep in mind while they read and analyze. The narrator encourages...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Tracking Comprehension
This lesson focuses on strategies for tracking comprehension while reading. It provides three main strategies: summarizing, chunking, and glossing. It explains each in step-by-step fashion using both text and audio.
Crash Course
Crash Course Literature #1: How and Why We Read
This seven minute video series of Crash Course Literature uses lively verbal explanations accompanied by entertaining visuals with a host who provides compelling examples of how and why people read.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Summarizing as You Read
This lesson explains the reading strategy of summarizing as you read. [5:37] RL.9-10.2 & RL.11-12.2 Analyzing Theme, RI.9-10.2 central idea/summary.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Conversations in Literature
A series of 8 instructional videos, each about 60 minutes in length, designed to model effective reading habits through envisionment building. Topics include Responding As Readers, Envisioning, Stepping In, Moving Through, Rethinking,...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine an Author's Message by Analyzing Character Development
In this video, you will learn how to determine an author's message by analyzing character development. [5:56]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Video: Use Text Evidence to Make Inferences About a Text's Meaning
In this video, you will learn how to understand the broader implications of a text by making good inferences about strong and thorough textual evidence. [6:07]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Lesson Video for 'Identify Theme by Analyzing Imagery'
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify a theme by analyzing the author's use of imagery. [8:03]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify Author's Purpose: Analyze How Multiple Themes Interact
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify an author's purpose by analyzing how multiple themes interact throughout a text. [7:01]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Video: Determine How Two Themes Interact and Build on One Another
In this video, you will learn how two themes interact and build on one another by analyzing an author's word choices. [8:28]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Video: Determine Theme by Considering a Character's Actions
In this video, you will learn how to identify a theme by considering the broader implications behind a character's actions. [5:19]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Lesson Video for 'Analyze a Symbol in a Text'
In this lesson, you will learn how to recognize development of theme by analyzing a symbol in the text. [6:20]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Analyze the Impact of Words and Phrases in a Poem
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the relationship between two characters by analyzing the impact of specific actions and phrases on the meaning of the text as a whole. [6:28]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine an Author's Message by Analyzing Character Development
In this video, you will learn how to determine an author's message by analyzing character development. RL.11-12.3 Auth choice story elem [5:56]