This video [0:53] checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #9: Dolphins at Daybreak by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Fact Tracker: Dolphins and Sharks, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and...

This video checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #42: A Good Night for Ghosts by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Fact Tracker: Ghosts, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and Mary Pope...

This video checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #2: The Knight at Dawn by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Fact Tracker: Knights and Castles, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and Mary Pope...

This video checks information shared in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #5: Afternoon on the Amazon by Mary Pope Osborne. Fact Tracker: Rain Forests, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne, is...

This video checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #17: Tonight on the Titanic by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Fact Tracker: Titanic, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and Mary Pope...

This video checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #28: High Tide in Hawaii by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Fact Tracker: Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters, the nonfiction companion written by Will...

In this lesson, you will learn how to find the main idea of a section of text by anticipating the box and bullets structure as you read a new section. Login gives access to a slideshow and additional videos. [3:21]

In this lesson, you will learn how to get the big idea of a nonfiction text by stopping at new information and asking "Is this adding to an idea I already have, or is it giving me a new idea?" Login gives access to a slideshow with...

In this lesson, you will learn how to figure out unfamiliar words by envisioning what is happening in the text and thinking about what the word probably means. [3:03]

In this lesson, you will learn how to find the main idea of a section of nonfiction text by gathering details from that section and asking "What are these details mostly teaching me about?" [3:31]

In this lesson, you will learn how to understand scientific concepts by examining specific information in nonfiction text. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [7:00]

This video [0:30] checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #46: Dogs in the Dead of Night by Mary Pope they had lots of questions. How do St. Bernards help find avalanche survivors? Who are some of the...

This video [0:48] checks information shared in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #39: Dark Day in the Deep Sea by Mary Pope Osborne. Fact Tracker: Sea Monsters, the nonfiction companion written by Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie...

This video from Jennifer Gonzalez's Cult of Pedagogy provides step-by-step instructions for guiding students to understand how to determine text structures.

Tanya Lee Stone writes a little bit of everything - science, history, biography, poetry, and fiction - for kids and teens. She's written middle grades biographies of pioneering women in the NASA space program, Amelia Earhart, and Ella...