Geography Now
Geography Now! Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has a diverse physical geographical profile, ranging from deserts to lush forests. It's also undergone radical political transformations, including moving from being a French colonial holding to an independent nation....
Geography Now
Geography Now! Burundi
Burundi's natural deposits of elements and cash crops support the developing economy, but its people define the unique African nation. The country is a mirror image of its neighbor, Rwanda, with civil war and political strife. A video...
Geography Now
Geography Now! The Bahamas
It's the richest country in the Caribbean, and it's home to swimming pigs. Meet The Bahamas: former enclave for pirates, current home to a bustling tourism industry. Scholars learn the origins and geography of the stunning group of...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making
A course for middle and high school teachers explores American history from the Pre-Columbian era through Reconstruction. Utilize provided video, online text, classroom activities, and Web-based activities to teach materials. The online...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing Margin Notes
This video lesson focuses on margin notes including the definition, purpose, how to write, what to include, and a literary example showing what they look like. Real Player is required.
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.
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]
Other
Cult of Pedagogy (You Tube): Teaching Text Structures for Non Fiction Reading
This video from Jennifer Gonzalez's Cult of Pedagogy provides step-by-step instructions for guiding students to understand how to determine text structures.
EL Education
El Education: Citing Evidence From Complex Text (Vimeo)
During this 10th grade reading lesson, students in Julia St. Martin's Springfield Renaissance School class in Springfield, MA engage in a structured, evidence-based discussion about Shakespeare's Macbeth. Students engage in close...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Academic Vocabulary Common Core: Hs English Language Arts
This series of video lesson segments demonstrates a teacher engaging students in strategies that help high school students explore a passage from Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter. These video segments include a bell ringer...
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.