Instructional Video
eSpark Learning

E Spark Learning: Using Text Features to Locate Information (Ri.5.7)

4th - 6th Standards
This video explains how to find the central idea and identify text features in print or digital nonfiction text. It uses several engaging articles as examples including one about a machine that splits Oreo cookies. [7:42]
Instructional Video
eSpark Learning

E Spark Learning: Comparing and Contrasting Points of View, Ri.5.9, Ri.6.9

5th - 6th Standards
This video compares and contrasts excerpts from a biography and the autobiography of Michael Jordan. After the instructor reads aloud both texts, she explains a Venn diagram that shows similarities and differences between the two...
Instructional Video
eSpark Learning

E Spark Learning: Comparing and Contrasting Reading Experience

6th Standards
In this lesson, a text and video version of the same story are compared and contrasted. [5:15]
Instructional Video
eSpark Learning

E Spark Learning: Developing Key Events Instructional Video (6.Ri.3)

6th Standards
In this video, students are guided through an analysis of a piece of informational text about travelers on the Oregon Trail. The instructor shows how to use a graphic organizer to sequence the events and see how the main event, westward...
Instructional Video
eSpark Learning

E Spark Learning: Integrating Information From Different Formats (Ri.6.7)

6th Standards
This video discusses how to use nonfiction text features to better understand what is being read. [4:19]