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E Spark Learning: Textual Evidence Instructional Video (7.R1.1)

6th - 8th Standards
This video shows an example of how to draw conclusions from an informative text and back it up with evidence from the text. [6:02]
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E Spark Learning: Inflectional Endings

K - 1st Standards
This video introduces kids to how adding different endings to a word can change the meaning of that word. Many examples of inflectional endings are provided. [2:59]
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E Spark Learning: How to Retell a Story Instructional Video (1.Rl, Quest 3)

K - 1st Standards
Learn how to retell a story by using the five finger approach. This video uses the story "The Tortoise and the Hare" as an example. [3:33]
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E Spark Learning: Inflectional Endings

1st Standards
Learn to read simple words with inflectional endings. [3:00]
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E Spark Learning: Analyzing Multimedia Elements Instructional Video (5.Rl.7)

4th - 6th Standards
This eSpark Learning video aligns with Common Core Standard RL.5.7: Analyze how visual or multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text.
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E Spark Learning: Asking and Answering Questions Framing Video (k.ri, Quest 1)

Pre-K - 1st Standards
The student is given different scenarios where the cartoon narrator asks questions.
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E Spark Learning: Beginning, Middle, End k.rl.3

Pre-K - 1st Standards
This eSpark video outlines a new learning quest that will help students master Common Core State Standard K.RL.3: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. This video is only the beginning of...
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E Spark Learning: Comparing Stories in the Same Genre Framing Video (5.Rl.9)

5th Standards
Explains how to compare stories within the same genre for their similarities and differences and how this skill will benefit one as a reader. This video introduces a followup activity where students would compare two fables and two...
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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]
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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...
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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]
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E Spark Learning: Comparing/contrasting Texts With Different Genres (Rl.6..9)

6th Standards
Explains what a genre is, the different types, and how to look past the genre to find similarities and differences. A chart is displayed that asks students to compare the characters, setting, plot, and theme or message in the Bible story...
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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...
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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]
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E Spark Learning: Letters Make Words Framing Video (k.rf, Quest 3)

Pre-K - 1st Standards
This eSpark video outlines a new learning quest that will help students master Common Core State Standard K.RF.1b: Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. [0:52]
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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."
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E Spark Learning: Comparing and Contrasting Points of View Framing Video

6th - 8th Standards
By the end of this "quest", you will be able to compare and contrast different points of view in a text by reading "Gulliver's Travels" and telling the story from a different point of view. [1:10]
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E Spark Learning: Recounting Stories Instructional Video (2.Rl.2)

1st - 3rd Standards
This eSpark video outlines a new learning Quest that will help students master Common Core Standard 2.RL.2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral. [4:40]