"Context Clues: Key Details" explains how to determine the meanings of unknown words by using key details in the surrounding words in passages.

Context Clues clarifies the meaning of words that are unknown or have multiple meaning using context clues.

Multiple Meaning Words determines the meaning of multiple meaning words by correctly identifying the word’s function.

“How to Read Shakespeare” explains how to read a Shakespearean play.

Greek Roots explores how to determine the meaning of unfamiliar complex words by using knowledge of Greek roots.

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

Drawing Conclusions teaches how to use clues from informational text to draw conclusions.

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

This video helps kids decode words and try both a short and long vowel sound. This is for after students have learned both short and long vowels. This teaches students how to decide whether a vowel is short or long in an unknown word....

This video teaches what the setting is and how to identify it from simple text to more complex text. It teaches how the authors sometimes tells us the setting and sometimes they show it, where we have to infer and use clues to figure out...

Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) offers us a prescription for how we might make progress in fundamental physics without experiment to guide us.

Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) highlights the clues pointing us towards the need for re-addressing core issues of quantum field theory.

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.

This is a video entitled “Theme Collage” which models how to determine the theme of a complete literary text.

“Using Context Clues” explains how context clues can be used to understand unknown words.

A video entitled “Guess What Happens Next” which explores how to make predictions while reading the story "The Tortoise and the Hare."

Join Detective Taylor as you solve the case of the missing repeated picture patterns. Help her solve the case of the missing apples and corn. The Math Challenge is to create a paper chain that has a repeating color pattern. At the end of...

Students will answer 5 riddles to determine what I did over Spring Break. It encourages students to highlight the clues in text to help them infer the setting of a story or in this case paragraph. Reading Challenge: Write your own...

This video goes over different examples of fiction and non-fiction books. Some genre is mentioned. It begins to teach students about author's purpose. The purpose of a non-fiction book is to inform us. The purpose of a fiction book...

Parents: If your child is a struggling reader, consider using this reading strategy.<br/>
Teachers: This video may be used to introduce QAR to your class. You can also assign it to students who are virtual.

A detective helps Farmer Taylor find her missing turkey.<br/>
Students will write a summary of the mystery.

Building tension is a very important skill in writing. In this lesson, we’ll explore five techniques, plus some other tips and tricks you can use to help build tension in your stories. Building Tension Techniques - Tease with clues - Use...

Learn how to determine the main idea of a text. Similar to summarising, this is an important reading strategy that helps readers comprehend texts

Poor readers lack knowledge of reading strategies that can help them comprehend text. In this lesson, we look at finding context clues in the paragraph and how reading ahead can help clarify the meaning of unknown words and concepts and...