Curated Video
Cause and Effect | Reading Strategies
Learn how to identify and understand cause and effect relationships. Identifying cause and effect in texts is an important reading strategy as it helps the reader to understand the events that are happening. It helps them understand...
Curated Video
Main Idea | Summarising | Reading Strategies
Learn how to determine the main idea of a text. Similar to summarising, this is an important reading strategy that helps readers comprehend texts
Curated Video
Cause & Effect Reading Strategy | Video Lessons
A video lesson teaching students to identify cause and effect within texts. Lesson includes worksheet and activities. Download the lesson worksheet (see Link #1) before starting the lesson.
The Learning Depot
Reading Comprehension Strategy | Reading Ahead to Find Context | Examples Given
Poor readers lack knowledge of reading strategies that can help them comprehend text. In this lesson, we look at finding context clues in the paragraph and how reading ahead can help clarify the meaning of unknown words and concepts and...
Curated Video
Compare and Contrast | Reading Strategies
Learn how to compare and contrast within texts. Being able to compare and contrast is an important reading skill as it helps the reader to organise information more efficiently and boosts comprehension.
Curated Video
Inferring | Reading Strategies
Learn how to find clues within text to help build a deeper understanding of what you read.
Curated Video
#5 Clarify and Monitor Book with Context Clues (Reading Comprehension)
In this video, I teach you how to monitor and clarify your reading. Reading is tough and it is easy to get lost or confused. I will teach you 8 different strategies to help you clarify your reading, This is a great way to help you...
Curated Video
#2 Prereading: How to Make Predictions (Foundations of Reading Comprehension)
In this video, I teach you how to make predictions as you read. This is a great way to help you understand what you are reading. I explain the purpose of predictions and give you two examples. I even include a FREE workbook. I invite you...
Curated Video
Sample New York Times IELTS Study Plan
Today you’ll get a sample New York Times IELTS study plan for weekly test preparation.
Curated Video
3 Ways Overthinking Decreases Reading Scores
In this video, you’ll learn 3 ways in which overthinking decreases your IELTS Reading scores. We’ve mentioned before how overthinking lowers scores. So, today, let’s get into more specifics about when this actually occurs on your exam....
Curated Video
Ariya Dances Her Way to Overall 7 in 20 Days - IELTS Energy Podcast 1145
Today you'll be so motivated by 3 Keys student Ariya, who will share her positive and delightful energy and advice so you can achieve your IELTS goals in a short time, just like she did. Get ready to laugh and learn how to conquer your...
Crash Course
Reading Assignments: Crash Course Study Skills #2
What's the difference between recognition and recall? Which one will help you on the test? Learn more about reading strategies and retaining information from large sections of text with the second video in a playlist about study skills.
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Party Moose
The importance of paying attention to what you are reading, and employing reading strategies when something doesn't make sense, are demonstrated in the 11-minute animated story "Party Moose" from the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali.
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Te Kete Ipurangi: Thinking and Reading Comprehension
Julie Cowan from Willowbank School explains how she supports students to become strategic, reflective, and metacognitive readers and thinkers.
Other
North pole.com: "Bud's Wild Ride"
Listen and read to Bud the Elf's bike-testing tale. A great way to develop elementary-aged reading and listening comprehension. Links to other "Christmas-time" games and stories.
Other
Class Acts: Supporting Struggling Adolescent Readers
This podcast from the International Reading Association focuses on strategies to help support struggling adolescent readers. Terrific ideas and specific suggestions will encourage that reluctant teen to read.
Brightstorm
Brightstorm Act Prep: Act Reading Strategies: Passages
Video with ACT instructor sharing tips and strategies for reading and tackling the passages on the ACT. [4:11]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Active Reading
Notes introducing active reading and giving tips on how to do it more successfully. Students can read and/or listen to the notes.
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]
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,...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Engaging With Literature: Building Community
In this video [18:59], you will watch Latosha Rowley working with her fourth and fifth graders in a multiage setting as they discuss their novels - all historical fiction - in small groups. You will then join them as they decide on a...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Engaging With Literature: Finding Common Ground
In this video [18:59], Bileni Teklu often focuses classroom instruction on developing her students' enjoyment of reading and appreciation for literature. Beginning each lesson with a brief 10- to 15-minute mini-lesson, Ms. Teklu devotes...