The purpose of the video lesson is to review the making connections reading strategies, including text-to-self , text-to-text, text-to-world connections.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of making inferences. The accompanying handouts (1)give scenarios that students make inferences from and (2)has students identify details or facts from the reading and the inferences that can be made from the detail or fact.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the strategies for monitoring comprehension. The accompanying handout provides a "Fix-Up Strategies Bookmark".

The purpose of the video lesson is to give examples of mysterious riddles as models for students to write some of their own. The accompanying handout provides an mysterious riddle example and asks students to create some of their own to share.

The purpose of the video lesson is to outline effective techniques for making predictions while you read. Predicting strategies include:
-First Lines
-Anticipation Guide
-DRTA (Directed Reading Thinking Activity)

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of questioning. It outlines the types of questions ("in the book questions": right there, think-search-find and "in my head questions": author and me, on my own). The accompanying handouts outline the types of questions and before-during-after questions/prompts.

The purpose of the video lesson is to review effective sentences techniques for mystery story writing. The accompanying handout provides a synopsis of these sentence techniques.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of summarizing. It gives the rules for summarizing that students can follow. The accompanying handout requires students to practice summarizing with the "Sum It Up" strategy and can be used with any text.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of synthesizing. The accompanying handout has students practice the strategy of synthesizing.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of visualization. The accompanying handout outlines the strategy and gives the opportunity for students to practice.

This handout provides helpful hints that students can use to increase their oral reading fluency.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the use of special features of poetry, with many examples. The accompanying handout gives practice at identifying the metre and rhyme of various poems.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the complete sentences, compound sentences, sentence fragments and run-on sentences. The accompanying handout provides practice on identifying and correcting sentence fragments.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore noun and pronoun agreement. The accompanying handout has students practice matching nouns and pronouns.

The purpose of the video lesson is to outline how to write a persuasive argument. The accompanying handout has the students go through the process of writing a good persuasive argument.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore how to conduct an effective live interview. The accompanying handout outlines the steps in preparing and conducting a live interview. The self-assessment handout has the student reflect on the interviewing process and set future goals.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the important components of news articles (headline, byline, lead, 5 W's and H) and how to assess the quality of a variety of news articles.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore strategies that are helpful when spelling difficult or unfamiliar words. The accompanying handout outlines an “look, say, look again, cover, write, and check” spelling strategy and gives students the opportunity to practice using it.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the components of a character profile, gives an example and then the opportunity for students to write a character profile of their own. The accompanying handout is a graphic organizer that can be used for developing a character profile.