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Free middle school informational text videos
Text Dependent Analysis - A short and simple way to teach TDA
A short entertaining animated video that covers Text Dependent Analysis questions and provides the teacher with a step by step process a student can use to answer these types of questions.
The Common Core standards have introduced a new language arts question type called Text Dependent Analysis. Students must demonstrate that they truly understand the text and are able to analyze it using evidence and explaining what that evidence meant.
Grades:
2nd - 12th
FREE Lizards Informational Text Reading Passage and Activities
This high interest and engaging mini lesson is a complete digital and interactive lesson with no prep activities using Google Slides. The lesson has accommodations built right into the activities. The videos and photos will engage reluctant readers.Each Micro-learning Deck includes:lesson engager, objectives, and preview of lesson activities video lesson informational text reading passage with audiovocabulary & comprehension activities, some with audioquick write activity with writing templa
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Reptiles Informational Text Reading Passage and Activities Bundle
Main Ideas and Supporting Details PPT with Embedded Videos!
This lesson teaches students the difference between main idea and supporting details in informational text. It includes explanations of the concepts, video examples, text examples and a summary at the end. Students will learn what main idea means, watch a video and write down the main idea, then read two informational texts and identify their main ideas. Then, they will learn what supporting details are, watch a video where the main idea is already provided, and take notes on what the supportin
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4th - 12th
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The Totally Awesome Test-Taking Strategies Intro Video
The Totally Awesome Test-Taking Strategies Intro Video is designed to give you an overview of the 5 tools in the Totally Awesome Test-Taking Strategies Toolkit. Please enjoy this free video intro that shares the tools for close-reading, multiple choice questions, short response questions, extended response questions and high performance. If you like the tools, consider purchasing the additional videos that include instruction of the 5 specific tools outlined in this free intro video. My prefere
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Debate Topics
Use this video and corresponding notes to help students start thinking about taking a stand on an argumentative topic.
Throughout the video, there are nine different topics. As each topic scrolls across the screen, students have one minute to brainstorm their current thoughts on the specific topic on their guided notes.
This is a great activity to start any argumentative topic!
To find handout, please search "Debate Topics Brainstorm."
Stated on the handout: "Directions: As the video flas
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5th - 12th
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Video: How Can You Write a Great Informational Essay (Including on a CAASPP PT?)
If your students are asked to write an informational essay on the CAASPP / SBAC performance task, what can they do to make it as excellent as possible? This 18-ish minute video walks them through a simple rubric, asking them to improve MY essay by looking through notes on astronauts to come up with a main idea. (Which winds up being that it is difficult but fun to become an astronaut!) It has a "thinksheet" that helps students engage and follow along. I have them scan the questions before we sta
Grades:
3rd - 11th
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Dust Bowl Background Powerpoint and Video Link
This is a PowerPoint presentation I made to access student's background information before we read "Out of the Dust". This PowerPoint covers the who, when, where, what, and why. There is also a link to a short video on the last slide.
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Grades:
5th - 10th
3:27
Teaching to Mastery Using the Gradual Release of Responsibility Method
The gradual release of responsibility method ensures that students have the tools, strategies, and academic language they need, before attempting to work out problems independently. The method can be used across disciplines and grade levels. It provides an instructional framework, with each step propelling students toward independence.This short video includes an overview, with examples from a lesson in which I use it. An editable lesson planning template is also included, as well as a Google Dr
Grades:
4th - 11th
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SPACECAT Rhetorical Analysis Graphic Organizer AP Language FREE RESOURCE!
**This resource is also available in... Rhetorical Analysis Unit Bundle 12 Speeches under 12-minute Rhetorical Analysis CHOICE BOARD3-Minute Ted Talk SPACECAT SpeechesWhat is SPACECAT? - SPACECAT facilitates students' understanding of the rhetorical situation: Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigence, Rhetorical Choices, Appeals, and Tone. This organizer features open-ended probing questions to prompt students' responses at higher DoK levels. I have always used SOAPSTone; however, SPACECAT
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Social Media Senate Simulation - Debate FREE RESOURCE!
Get your students fully engaged in real-world problem solving in a simulation! This simulation is a great way to model for students diverse perspectives within the relevant issue of teen mental health as a result of social media use. Inspired by the Seattle Public Schools's law suit against Meta, and Senate Judiciary Hearings brought forth by a former Meta employee regarding teen mental health and social media, this simulation puts students front and center with voice, choice, and agency. It is
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Nelson Mandela Informational Text Reading Passage and Activities
This mini lesson is a complete digital lesson with no prep activities using Google Slides. The simple and consistent layout is made for everyone and has accommodations built right into the activities.Each Micro-Learning Deck includes:preview of lesson activities short video lesson with key wordsshort informational text reading passage with audiovocabulary & comprehension activitiesquick write activity with writing template and word bankThe lesson offers multiple and flexible options for lear
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7th - 10th
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FREE Discussion Builder Close Reading Handout
This discussion builder focuses on close reading. Each student receives a text selection from the text in a cut-out strip. They glue their text strip into this handout. Each student is responsible for leading their small group through analysis of this text excerpt. Before each student shares their text excerpt, they will write a response to the prompts on this handout. Then, when they share their text exceprt, they will also share their responses. Their job is to open a discussion with their tab
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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"The Odyssey" DVD - Viewing Guide
50 questions based on "The Odyssey" Miniseries DVD (1997). Students will complete this guide as they watch the miniseries. Questions include matching characters, matching symbols, and true/false and multiple choice questions that follow along with the plot.
For a more in-depth viewing guide, see my 100-question guide for the same miniseries, also on Teachers Pay Teachers.
DVD running time is 2 hours 56 minutes. Allow at least four class periods to complete.
Grades:
8th - 10th
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Great Websites for Current Events
These are great websites to use for current events. Many of these websites contain comprehension questions, supplemental videos to show on your interactive white boards, and a variety of topics anywhere from S.T.E.M. to entertainment. These are great to use for mini-lessons and bell ringers. By The Creative Scholar.
Grades:
K - 12th
3:04
FDR's Fireside Chat #8
This video is a primary source companion to my Close Reading and Fluency Practice Resource on Franklin Delano Roosevelt & The Great Depression. It is an excerpt of FDR's 8th "Fireside Chat" where he addresses serious issues facing famers and laborers.
The Close Reading and Fluency Practice Resource is designed to be used with students in grades 4-8 and provides many options for differentiation. The resource includes 2 paired reading passages: The Great Depression and Franklin Delano Roos
Grades:
5th - 8th
4:51
Financial Literacy: Borrowing Money - Video
Borrowing to buy a car or pay for school might seem like a good idea, but what does borrowing money really mean, and how does it work? This episode of Cash Course teaches young adults the ins and outs of borrowing—from understanding principal and interest to what you should know before you borrow.Learn more about Cash Course.Don't forget our great lesson plan and worksheet for this episode.
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8th - 11th
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Introduction to Argument - CER
Students watch a video and then create a group claim based on an infomercial. The work together to form a coherent and logical argument with peers.
Grades:
5th - 7th
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HTML for Beginners- CH.1
An easy and fun introduction to HTML5 code and the foundations of web design. Beginners HTML is designed with classroom teaching in mind. We've included the videos, glossary of terms and project files on Teachers Pay Teachers - for free!
Our full version includes: the video lessons, quizzes, automated grading and tracking, teacher training and much more.
Preview here:
http://www.studioweb.com/demo
Chapter 1: The Basics
Introduction
First look at HTML
HTML and the web pages it creates.
How t
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8th - 12th
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Peacemakers Throughout History
This project aims to address many components of social and academic growth in middle school students. This unit was originally written for 5th graders, but could be easily adapted for 6th, 7th or 8th graders. Students work collaborative to research a peacemakers, independently write and informative piece and as a class create a video showing the qualities of a peacemaker and how those qualities can be applied to them.
Grades:
5th - 8th
2:28
Two-Footed Questions Invite Curiosity for Any Topic
Looking to start an interesting and in-depth discussion that engages students from the get-go? Then you'll enjoy the two-footed questions illustrated in this video. I hope you like it as much as your students will delight in adding another foot to questions.
My students often remind me to get my two-pronged queries out as writing prompts, since two footed questions link to their unique interests and draw their curiosity into the center of texts or topics. Not surprisingly they learn more in le
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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3:05
"I Was Born for This!" Black History Rap Song for Frederick Douglass Activities
This Black history song about Frederick Douglass covers important events during the early years of Douglass life from birth up to his escape from slavery at age twenty. This song also has reading activities based on its lyrics.Get the reading activities for this song here!This activity includes:- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage- multiple-choice, comprehension questions with the answer key- a context clues activity: students will define content vocabulary words using context clues in
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Guide to the Documentary - The Case for Christ: Student Edition
Guide to the Documentary - The Case for Christ: Student EditionBy Lee Strobel with Jane VogelBook StudyUse the Guide to the Documentary to view segments of the documentary created from the book posted on YouTube. The guide will give you time intervals to watch with each chapter of the book. YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDlgWC49iqA Teachers can use the documentary, created for the book, to enhance the study of the non-fiction book - The Case for Christ: Student Edition by Lee S
Grades:
5th - 8th
1:07
Shackleton and the Endurance - Video Preview
This is an introduction video for the incredible survival story of Ernest Shackleton and his 27 crew stranded on the Antarctic ice for 2 years after the crushing of their ship, Endurance. This video lesson is based on journals from the expedition written at the time the vessel was abandoned, and takes the form of four diary entries outlining life in the Antarctic and being set adrift on the ice. It is intended for social studies classes and is meant to supplement the reading of a book about the
Grades:
5th - 8th
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The Sun - Tracking Our Closest Star
Interactive lesson that includes informational text and video. The lesson includes narration throughout as well as two questions requiring students to use information from the text.
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5th - 8th
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