British Council
Learn English Kids: Tooth Family
Listen to an animated song about teeth, with advice for keeping them healthy and clean. Read-along lyrics make this resource particularly useful in English language learning settings and with beginning readers, but it also fits 21st...
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.
Other
'Question Words?' Song (Who, Why, What, When ,Where, How) English on Tour
This cartoon band sings a song that helps students remember the 6 question words: who, what, why, when, where, and how. Students will want to sing along.
Crash Course
Crash Course Study Skills #2: Reading Assignments
This video focuses on how to deal with large reading assignments including how to boost your speed in reading and how your working memory works. It also includes reading tips and the importance of practicing and maintaining focus while...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Locate Text Features
In this lesson, you will learn how to find text features by finding clues in the text, such as boxes and parentheses. Login gives access to an additional video. [2:49]
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Book Buddies: Engaging With Literature
Watch as two teachers create Book Buddies with 3rd and 5th graders in this half-hour video from "Engaging with Literature". Book Buddies offers students a chance to explore a book they are familiar with in new ways.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Sat Reading Test: What to Expect
This video [2:08] is an overview of the SAT Reading Test. It explains that the passages include one literary text from a famed author, informational texts from science, history, etc. The sections include Information and Ideas, Rhetoric,...
PBS
Pbs: Retelling a Story: Strategies for Students With Cognitive Disabilities
Video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates an activity for retelling a story.
PBS
Pbs: Opportunities to Engage With the Word Wall
In this self-contained high school classroom, the teacher has students identify the beginning sound in a word, then selects a student to match the beginning sound of a word to the correct letter on the word wall.
PBS
Pbs: Planning for Communication/strategies for Students With Cognitive Disabilities
In this self-contained high school classroom, the teacher encourages the student to use the communication system as well as a vocal response while learning a new word.
PBS
Pbs: Conveying a Clear Message
In this self-contained high school classroom, a teacher supports her student in being persistent in her communication attempt. They use both the student's verbal abilities and her augmentative communication system to try and convey a...
PBS
Pbs: Indicating Letters With an Eye Gaze System
The video demonstrates effective strategies for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities in literacy instruction, in particular the eye gaze system.
PBS
Pbs: Rounding Up the Rhymes
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, the teacher reads text to identify pairs of rhyming words within the story.
PBS
Pbs: Work Keys Reading for Information: Level 4
In this video, viewers learn about reading comprehension.
PBS
Pbs: Setting a Purpose for Reading Story Map, Part 3
This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates how to set a purpose then listen to see if you can find the solution.
PBS
Pbs: Work Keys Reading for Information: Level 6
In this video, viewers are asked to apply information from a sample passage to a new situation.
PBS
Pbs: How Do We Know What the Character Is Feeling
This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates how to identify how the character feels in a story.
PBS
Pbs: Setting a Purpose for Reading Story Map, Part 2
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, students are asked to identify the story elements, specifically the problem in the story.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tea Mology: Helping and Learning From Mistakes
TEAMology characters Harper and Paco lend a little assistance at the local library! Learning to read and learning from mistakes is packaged with fun. [4:57]