Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Use Text Structure to Organize and Comprehend New Information
In this lesson, you will learn how to organize information by using text structure clues. [3:13]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine the Main Idea of Paragraphs as You Read
In this lesson, you will learn how to keep track of what you read by using your palm for the main idea and your fingers for details. Login gives access to an additional video. [4:02]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Check Your Understanding of an Article by Teaching Others
In this lesson, you will be able to check for understanding by teaching others what you have learned by sharing "this text teaches me.." [7:02]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Use Vocabulary in a Text to Deepen Your Understanding
In this lesson, you will learn how to speed up your understanding of a text by paying close attention to the vocabulary. Login gives access to an additional video. [3:14]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Revise Your Thinking as You Read
In this lesson, you will learn how to revise your thinking as you read by pausing at the end of each section and asking, "How has my thinking changed?" Login gives access to an additional video. [5:20]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Read Fluently by Asking, "What Does the Author Want Me to Know?"
In this lesson, you will learn that good readers read for emphasis and meaning by asking, "What does the author want me to know is important?" [4:52]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Read Dialogue by Matching Characters
In this lesson, you will learn how to fluently read dialogue in context by matching the dialogue to the characters. [5:03]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Read Dialogue by Recognizing Clue Verbs
In this lesson, you will learn how to fluently read dialogue in context by recognizing clue verbs. [3:18]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Use Information From Text and Illustrations to Understand a Topic
In this lesson students will learn how to understand a topic by combining information from the words and illustrations in the text. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [9:15]
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...
EL Education
El Education: Grappling With Complex Informational Text (Vimeo)
In this video, Andrew Hossack at the Tapestry Charter School in Buffalo, NY, involves his students in using close reading strategies of a complex text to determine the main idea and important details. In this lesson, his complex text is...
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Other
Corwin Connect: How to Select Complex Texts [Video]
This video clip features Douglas Fisher explaining how to select complex texts. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.10
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Mc Graw Hill: How to Help Students Understand
During this instructional session, students engage in close readings of a complex text. CSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.10
Jack Hartmann
Jack Hartmann: Parts of a Story
Story retelling is a critical skill for reading comprehension. Sing along with Jack and increase your reading comprehension and story retelling skills. Learn about the parts of a story or elements of a story. [2:38]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Weaken Worked Example
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for the LSAT. Watch a demonstration of one way to approach Weaken questions on the LSAT.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Weaken Video Lesson
Watch one way to approach a question that asks you to identify a choice that weakens an argument on the logical reasoning section of the LSAT.
PBS
Pbs: Work Keys Reading for Information: Level 4
In this video, viewers learn about reading comprehension.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Understanding Figurative Language: Pot Calling the Kettle Black
In this video, you will learn the meaning of the idiom "the pot calling the kettle black" by using context clues. [4:58]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Understanding Figurative Language: Swallow Hook, Line, and Sinker
In this video, you will learn the meaning of the idiom "to swallow hook, line, and sinker" by using context clues. [4:54]
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Storytime Online: Viorst: Alexander and The... Very Bad Day
Listen to and view an online adaptation of Judith Viorst's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. [6 mins, 16 secs] Requires Real Player.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Asking Questions as You Read
This screencast focuses on asking questions as you read, including: the purpose; types of questions; examples of questions for character, setting, and events; and a literary example. [2:44]