Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Understanding Figurative Language: "Water Under the Bridge"

8th
In this lesson, you will learn the meaning of the idiom "water under the bridge" by using context clues. [4:17]
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Understanding Figurative Language: "Get One's Foot in the Door"

8th
In this lesson, you will learn the meaning of the idiom "get one's foot in the door" by using context clues. [4:48]
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Read Dialogue by Matching Characters

3rd
In this lesson, you will learn how to fluently read dialogue in context by matching the dialogue to the characters. [5:03]
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Read Dialogue by Recognizing Clue Verbs

3rd
In this lesson, you will learn how to fluently read dialogue in context by recognizing clue verbs. [3:18]
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Identify and Describe How an Author Foreshadows Certain Events

2nd Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to look for clues about what will happen in the story by rereading and asking, "What words are clue words that foreshadow something in the story?" [6:19]
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Reading Strategies

1st - 3rd Standards
This video [1:40] teaches students a wide variety of reading strategies. It touches on such issues as careful reading and follow-through, context clues, capitalization, transition words, features of printed text, and the relationship...
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Understanding Figurative Language: "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"

7th
In this lesson, you will learn the meaning of the idiom "a wolf in sheep's clothing" by using context clues. [4:54]
Instructional Video
eSpark Learning

E Spark Learning: Word Mysteries Framing Video (k.ri, Quest 4)

Pre-K - 1st Standards
"This eSpark video outlines a new learning quest that will help students master Common Core State Standard K.RI.4 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text."
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Using Word Roots to Determine Meaning

9th - 10th Standards
A screencast lesson explaining how to use word roots to determine the meaning of unknown vocabulary. [4:38]
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Synonym Context Clues

9th - 10th Standards
This screencast lesson introduces synonym context clues. [2:32]