Townsend Press
Inferences
A picture is worth a thousand words. Help your class out with some of those words with a video about drawing inferences from reading passages, images, and other media. The resource focuses on the supporting details of each passage...
Townsend Press
Main Ideas
Once you find the main idea of a paragraph, it's easy to see how the rest of the details are supporting evidence. Take your readers through an explanatory video that demonstrates the points and supports of several reading examples.
Andrews McMeel Publishing
POW! A Peanuts Collection
Make a study of Charles M. Scultz's famous comic strip Peanuts in your language arts class. Class members read and discuss the baseball-themed book POW! A Peanuts Collection. After talking about themes and vocabulary, they complete...
Other
You Tube: Flocabulary Five Things (Elements of a Short Story)
Learn about five story elements: plot, character, conflict, theme and setting in this engaging music video. [3:42]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Find the Main Idea of a Section of Nonfiction Text
In this lesson, you will learn how to find the main idea of a section of nonfiction text by gathering details from that section and asking "What are these details mostly teaching me about?" [3:31]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine the Main Idea and Summarize a Nonfiction Text
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the main idea and summarize what you have read by connecting ideas presented throughout the text. [7:16]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine the Theme of a Story
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify the theme in a passage by asking "What did the main character learn?" [4:16]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine the Theme of a Story
In this lesson, you will learn to determine the theme of the story by analyzing the change the character goes through in the story. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [4:16]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine the Theme of a Poem
In this lesson, you will learn how the author establishes theme by determining meaning from clues in the text. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [7:55]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine the Theme of a Drama
In this lesson, you will learn to determine the theme of a drama by asking yourself what the audience can learn from the story. Login gives access to a copy of a Little Red Riding-Hood play, a slideshow, and a student handout. [6:18]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Describe an Event Using a Character's Words and Actions
In this lesson, you will learn to describe an event in the story by drawing on characters' words and actions. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [5:10]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Explain How a Playwright Tells a Story
In this lesson, you will learn to explain how a playwright tells a story by looking at setting, character dialogue, and stage directions. [6:26]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Brainstorming Description of a Person
In this lesson, you will learn how to describe your topic by constructing a web with adjectives that tell about your topic. [3:04]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Organize Ideas in Informational Writing Using Headings
In this lesson, you will learn how to use paragraphs to organize ideas by introducing headings. [5:09]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Choosing a Story Idea for a Narrative
In this lesson, you will learn how to choose a story idea by asking, "Which of these could I write most about?" and then imagining the story. [5:07]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Brainstorm Story Ideas for a Response to a Narrative Prompt
In this lesson, you will learn how to brainstorm possible story ideas by making a list. [5:40]
Other
Flocabulary: Five Elements of a Story
A music video [3:42] about the five elements of a story: setting, plot, characters, conflict, and theme. Includes downloadable student handouts.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques: Theme
Learn how to identify theme in a literary work in this short animated video [2:26] from WNET.
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]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Brainstorm Narrative Writing Topics
In this lesson, you will learn how to focus ideas on a topic by making a list. [5:46]
Education Development Center
Tv411: Tune in to Learning: Summarizing
In this video, a policeman discusses summarizing in everyday life: movies, fairy tales, events, etc. He says, no details - only the main idea. [1:25]