“Theme” will help students evaluate the concepts of theme and main idea within a piece of literature.

This video will help students understand and recognize the critical role and difference between mood and tone in word choice in poetry.

Technical Writing explains the purpose of technical writing and makes a list of examples of focused, specific topics for technical writing.

Description Text Structure identifies the common characteristics of the description structure of informational text.

Antagonist and Protagonist defines and provides examples of an antagonist and a protagonist.

The video “Important Parts of a Book” identifies text features in a printed book.

Persuasive Writing explains the concept of persuasive by citing the characteristics and describing the purpose of persuasive text.

This video will cover modifiers and how best to identify them and rectify them within sentences where they are misplaced.

“Prefix Power” explains the concept of prefixes and gives examples of common prefixes.

This video explores the idea of descriptive language and how tone, mood, and imagery all work in conjunction to enhance any form of writing.

Facts, Definitions, Details, and Quotations provides facts, definitions, details, and quotations on a given topic by completing a graphic organizer.

Making Inferences explains how context clues can be used to make inferences about a story.

Exploring Setting explores the concept of setting in a literary work by identifying the setting and explaining the effect(s) the setting has on the main character.

Theme:A Guilty Conscience demonstrates understanding of theme by identifying an example of theme found in the short story, A Guilty Conscience.

“What’s the Big Idea?” discusses the main idea and supporting details of a text.

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford) discusses how he was forced to revisit his notorious Stanford Prison Experiment decades later and the effect that it had on him.

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“Static and Dynamic Characters” describes the differences between character types used in literature.

A video entitled “Finalizing Writing” which explores three steps of the writing process: revising, editing, and publishing.

“Write a How-To Text” models how to write a how-to text and provides examples.

A video titled “Making Character Inferences” which introduces the definition of an inference and reviews methods to help you make inferences about characters in a story.

A video entitled, “Graphic Aids in Texts,” which explains how graphic aids are used in informational texts and reviews the different types of commonly used graphic aids.

A video entitled “Poetry Interpretation,” which demonstrates the process of reading a poem to interpret its message.

A video entitled “Tone and Mood in Literature” which analyzes the tone and mood in literary passages.