Once you find the main idea of a paragraph, it's easy to see how the rest of the details are supporting evidence. Take your readers through an explanatory video that demonstrates the points and supports of several reading examples.

Concepts

main ideas, reading comprehension strategies, writing organization, supporting details, fact and opinion

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Assign the video for homework before your reading lesson for a flipped classroom activity
• Pause the video at opportune moments for additional instruction
• Use in a writing lesson to emphasize the importance of structured arguments

Classroom Considerations

• The video is a little long (9 minutes) and would be most effective if broken up into smaller parts
• Contains some colloquial phrases that could confuse second language learners (My car is a lemon)
• The first reading video in a ten-video series

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Encourages learners to read closely and structure their writing in an understandable way
• Applicable to writing and reading units alike
• Provides several examples for learners to examine

Cons

• Not very engaging for younger learners
• Some slides contain a large amount of text that could overwhelm young readers

Common Core

RL.4.1 RL.4.2 RL.5.1 RL.5.2 RI.4.1 RI.4.2 RI.5.1 RI.5.2 RL.6.1 RL.6.2 RI.6.1 RI.6.2