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...

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...

Ghost by Jason Reynolds is a coming-of-age book that resonates with teenagers who have experienced childhood trauma. Explore the novel with an interactive resource that focuses on the author's use of symbolism, particularly with...

What makes a poem a poem? The narrator of a short video wades into the debate with the contention that the three characteristics that poems share are musical qualities, condensed language, and intense feelings.

More than 15 of Jane Austen's novels have been adapted into films. While viewers enjoy the lush sets, period costumes, and the depictions of eighteenth-century British gentry, what is often lost in these adaptations is Austen's satire. A...

The importance of paying attention to what you are reading, and employing reading strategies when something doesn't make sense, are demonstrated in the 11-minute animated story "Party Moose" from the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali.

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...

This video clip features Douglas Fisher explaining how to select complex texts. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.10