Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: How to Read a Writing Assignment

9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson focuses on how to read and understand a writing assignment. It begins by defining keywords used in assignments: analyze, compare and contrast, evaluate, describe, and propose. Then using a sample assignment, it...
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Targeted Re Reading

9th - 10th Standards
This lesson defines and explains how to do targeted re-reading and provides two literary examples. It offers this information in both text and audio formats.
Instructional Video
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Conversations in Literature

9th - 10th Standards
A series of 8 instructional videos, each about 60 minutes in length, designed to model effective reading habits through envisionment building. Topics include Responding As Readers, Envisioning, Stepping In, Moving Through, Rethinking,...
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Video: Analyze How an Author Develops and Supports His Claims

9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine an author's claims by analyzing supporting evidence. [5:16]
Instructional Video
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Annotating Across Disciplines

5th - 9th Standards
Students use microscopes to look at single-celled organisms. [3:48]
Instructional Video
EngageNY

Engage Ny: Determine Author's Purpose and Analyze Use of Rhetoric

9th - 10th Standards
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.