Curated Video
#8 How to Make Inferences While You Read (Reading Comprehension)
In this video, I teach you how to make inferences while you read. A lot of times, the author doesn't tell us directly what is happening so we have to make inferences. I teach a simple and easy process to help you understand what you are...
Wonderscape
Using Inference and Cause and Effect Clues in Reading
Learn how to utilize inference clues, which require reasoning skills and background knowledge, to deduce the meaning of unknown words in context. Explore cause and effect clues, signaled by words like "because" or "due to," to understand...
Crash Course Kids
What is an inference? (Charlotte’s Web): Crash Course Kids Literature #1
New ReviewReading books can be fun, but there’s so much more to discover beneath the surface. In this episode of Crash Course Kids Literature, we’ll use our background knowledge and story evidence to make inferences about E.B. White’s novel,...
The Learning Depot
Finding Implied Main Idea | Reading Strategies for Better Comprehension Skills
The implied main idea is not clearly stated in any one sentence in the passage, but it is always there. You just can't take your finger and point at it or take a highlighter and highlight it. The implied main idea comes together in your...
Language Tree
Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Reading and Viewing Closely, Part 1
This video teaches English learners how to breaking down presentations and / or passages to pinpoint the main idea, details, similarities and differences to gain deeper understanding. It also shows how to identify the concept of cause...
The Learning Depot
How Authors Describe Characters: Direct vs Indirect Characterization
When taking a reading comprehension test, have you ever been stumped by a question asking about how the author or another character feels about a specific character? Or perhaps when reading a novel or story, you’re somewhat confused...
Curated Video
Discussing a section of 'The Borrowers' (part 2)
Pupil outcome: I can read and discuss a section of the build-up in 'The Borrowers'. Key learning points: - In this section of the build-up, Arrietty explores the outside world and enjoys freedom and nature. - The atmosphere shifts when...
Curated Video
Exploring character relationships in 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'
Pupil outcome: I can discuss the relationship between Lila and Lalchand. Key learning points: - Using inference can help us to draw greater conclusions about Lila and Lalchand's relationship. - The relationship between Lila and Lalchand...
The Learning Depot
Reading Comprehension | 8 Types of Context Clues to Be a Better Reader
Knowing the eight common types of context clues will help you be a better reader and unlock the meaning of complex text. In this lesson, we look at the 8 types of context clues. Examples are given.
Language Tree
Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Reading and Viewing Closely, Part 2
This video teaches English learners how to breaking down presentations and / or passages to pinpoint the main idea, details, similarities and differences to gain deeper understanding. It also shows how to identify the concept of cause...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Donald J. Leu - New Literacies Research Lab
Donald J. Leu is the John and Maria Neag Endowed Chair in Literacy and Technology at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Leu directs the New Literacies Research Lab. He is an international authority on literacy education, especially the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Don J. Leu - New Literacies
Donald J. Leu is the John and Maria Neag Endowed Chair in Literacy and Technology at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Leu directs the New Literacies Research Lab. He is an international authority on literacy education, especially the...
Clarendon Learning
What is an Inference? | Making Inferences for Kids | Inference and Reading Comprehension Practice
What is an Inference? Making an inference simply means to use what you already know to make a guess about something that you don’t know. It is a very important reading comprehension skill and throughout this video we help your kids and...
Curated Video
Thinking from the character's perspective in 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'
Pupil outcome: I can think from someone else's perspective. Key learning points: - One way of inferring a character's feelings is looking at their expressions in an illustration - One way of inferring a character's feelings is reading...
Kids Academy
Grade 2: Building Vocabulary - Cause and Effect Worksheets | Kids Academy
Your child will build grade 2 reading comprehension by building vocabulary and inference skills using this cause and effect worksheet and video tutorial! Your child will focus on forming a conclusion based on observable clues,...
Curated Video
Thinking from Paddington and Floella Benjamin's perspectives
Pupil outcome: I can think from another person or character's perspective. Key learning points: - One way of inferring a character's feelings is looking at their expressions in an illustration. - One way of inferring a character's...
Curated Video
Why AI doesn't speak every language
It could learn them all. But will it? Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Large language models are astonishingly good at understanding and producing language. But there’s an often...
Townsend Press
Implied Main Ideas
Skilled readers can find the main idea of an informative passage without finding it directly stated. A reading video prompts elementary learners to examine supporting details in several examples, and to infer what the main idea...
Northeast Arkansas Education Cooperative
Sampling Methods and Preventing Bias
Experimental design can be both incredibly intuitive and very high-concept when first introduced to learners. This video does a great job of discussing sampling methods and bias simply, without over-reducing...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Ask and Answer Questions About the Text While Reading
In this lesson, you will learn how to grow ideas about a text by asking questions as you read and using what you already know to try to answer those questions. Login gives access to a slideshow and additional videos. [3:11]