Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Find the Main Idea of a Section of Nonfiction Text
In this lesson, you will learn how to find the main idea of a section of text by anticipating the box and bullets structure as you read a new section. Login gives access to a slideshow and additional videos. [3:21]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Find the Main Idea of a Nonfiction Article
In this lesson, you will learn how to get the big idea of a nonfiction text by stopping at new information and asking "Is this adding to an idea I already have, or is it giving me a new idea?" Login gives access to a slideshow with...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine an Unfamiliar Word in a Nonfiction Text
In this lesson, you will learn how to figure out unfamiliar words by envisioning what is happening in the text and thinking about what the word probably means. [3:03]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Find the Main Idea of a Section of Nonfiction Text
In this lesson, you will learn how to find the main idea of a section of nonfiction text by gathering details from that section and asking "What are these details mostly teaching me about?" [3:31]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Explain Scientific Concepts Based on Information in a Text
In this lesson, you will learn how to understand scientific concepts by examining specific information in nonfiction text. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [7:00]
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Rh Kids: Fact Tracker: Dog Heroes
This video [0:30] checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #46: Dogs in the Dead of Night by Mary Pope they had lots of questions. How do St. Bernards help find avalanche survivors? Who are some of the...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Rh Kids: Fact Tracker: Sea Monsters
This video [0:48] checks information shared in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #39: Dark Day in the Deep Sea by Mary Pope Osborne. Fact Tracker: Sea Monsters, the nonfiction companion written by Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie...
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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.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Tanya Lee Stone
Tanya Lee Stone writes a little bit of everything - science, history, biography, poetry, and fiction - for kids and teens. She's written middle grades biographies of pioneering women in the NASA space program, Amelia Earhart, and Ella...