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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Feasts & Fiction: Famous Food in Literature
Food varies wildly from place to place and from culture to culture; since humans are such sensory creatures, using words to evoke the experience of eating is an excellent way to bring a text to life. [8:57]
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Pbs: Retelling Key Events in a Story
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, a high school teacher supports students in retelling a story allowing students access to a text and a communication system, if needed.
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Pbs: Using a Timeline Containing Historical Events to Illustrate Text to Self
Video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates the use of a timeline containing historical events to illustrate text to self.
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]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify the Theme by Asking "What Did the Main Character Learn?"
In this video, you will learn how to learn how to identify the theme in a story by asking "What did the main character learn?" [3:13]
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course English Literature: Their Eyes Were Watching God
In which John Green reads Zora Neale Hurston's novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and talks to you about it. You'll learn about Zora Neale Hurston's life, and we'll also look at how the interpretations of the book have changed over...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course English Literature: Invisible Man
This week, we're on to reading Ralph Ellison's great novel about the black experience in America after World War II, Invisible Man. John will teach you about Ellison's nameless narrator, and his attempts to find his way in a social order...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course English Literature: The Great Gatsby Part 1
In which John Green explores F Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby (video one of two). John introduces you to Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchanan, and the other characters in the novel and tries to...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course English Literature: 100 Years of Solitude, Part 1
Our first of two episodes about Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, 100 Years of Solitude. This week, we're looking at the Buendia family, and their many generations of people with the same names. We'll also look at the fascinating way the...