Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Video: Analyze How an Author Develops and Supports His Claims
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine an author's claims by analyzing supporting evidence. [5:16]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Draw Inferences From the Text Using Key Details and Evidence
In this video, you will learn how to make inferences by examining key phrases and clues within a text. [6:51]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Inferences
This video lesson focuses on inferences including the definition, how to determine the strength of an inference, and the role of inferences in writing. [5:47] RL.9-10.1, RL. 11-12, RI.9-10.1, RI.11-12.1 textual evidence and inferences
Other
Cult of Pedagogy (You Tube): Teaching Text Structures for Non Fiction Reading
This video from Jennifer Gonzalez's Cult of Pedagogy provides step-by-step instructions for guiding students to understand how to determine text structures.
EL Education
El Education: Citing Evidence From Complex Text (Vimeo)
During this 10th grade reading lesson, students in Julia St. Martin's Springfield Renaissance School class in Springfield, MA engage in a structured, evidence-based discussion about Shakespeare's Macbeth. Students engage in close...
EngageNY
Engage Ny: Determine Author's Purpose and Analyze Use of Rhetoric
Students participate in a Socratic seminar and demonstrate how to determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify the Conclusion Worked Example
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach a logical reasoning question that asks you to identify the conclusion of an argument. [5:18]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify the Conclusion Video Lesson
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach a question that asks you to identify the conclusion of an argument on the Logical Reasoning section of the LSAT. [6:13]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify an Entailment Worked Example
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach a question that asks you to identify an entailment that follows logically from a set of premises. [6:44]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify an Entailment Video Lesson
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach questions that ask you to identify an entailment that would follow logically from a series of statements. [8:40]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Starting With the Text
This lesson offers reasons why some students prefer to read the text before reading the questions when asked to answer questions. It offers this information in text and audio formats.
Other
The Seahorse Project: Finding the Main Argument in Academic Writing
This video gives you hints on how to read a book chapter or journal article so that you can find the author's argument. [2:50]