ELA Mini-Lesson Instructional Videos instead of Lectures!
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80 ELA instructional videos to replace traditional ELA mini-lessons or lectures (URL video links included) - Perfect for distance learning or Google Classroom!
Never plan another mini-lesson! Never have disengaged students or classroom management stress again! Simply play videos to teach ELA skills!
Instead of boring lectures that students tune out, introduce or review EVERY secondary reading literature, reading informational text and grammar common core state standards using informative and engaging "mini-lesson" videos (URL links included)!
DIRECTIONS: Click and play the relevant video link on your class projector or SmartBoard to start class with an engaging instructional video instead of a traditional mini lesson or lecture. For blended learning classrooms, copy and paste the URL link(s) onto your student’s handout or Google Classroom materials - for students to access the link directly. All instructional videos are “YouTube” links. If your school does not allow YouTube, use your home device to search for “YouTube to MP3” on Google and use one of the search results to copy and paste the link and save an MP3 file to email to your school computer or to students to access on Google Classroom.
Videos are organized in order by common core reading standard and accessible via clickable URL link.
See sample video:
80 Mini-Lesson Videos to Replace Mini-Lessons and Lectures!
- Commas
- Adjectives vs. Adverbs
- Adjective Adverb Modification
- Run-ons and Comma Splices
- Fragments
- Parallel Sentence Structure
- Subject Verb Agreement
- Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
- SAT Critical Reading Strategies
- ACT Reading Tips and Strategies
- Literal & Inferential Questions
- Literal Text Evidence
- Making Inferences
- Theme vs. Central idea in Literature
- How to Find Theme
- How to Identify a Theme in a Story
- Main Idea and Summarizing
- Multiple Main Ideas in One Passage
- Main Idea & Supporting Details
- Summarizing
- Themes, Morals, Lessons
- Cause & Effect
- Compare & Contrast
- Plot Elements
- Types of Conflict in Literature
- Setting
- Setting Affects Character & Plot
- Direct & Indirect Characterization using Disney’s Frozen
- Character Analysis - Traits & Motivations
- Character Response to Major Events
- Character Response to Events
- Major & Minor Characters
- Pun
- Hyperbole
- Personification
- Alliteration
- Onomatopoeia
- Symbolism
- Allegory
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Idioms
- Mood vs. Tone
- Connotation & Denotation
- Dictionary Skills
- Context Clues
- Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes
- Analogies in Literature
- Foreshadowing
- Using Text Features
- Problem Solution Text Structure
- Cause Effect Text Structure
- Compare Contrast Text Structures
- Sequencing Order of Events
- Poetic Rhyme Scheme, Rhythm & Repetition
- Poetic Rhythm & Repetition
- Poetic Meter
- Author's Purpose
- Point of View
- Situational Irony
- Verbal Irony
- Dramatic Irony
- Rhetoric, Ethos, Logos, Pathos
- Distinguish Info in Illustration vs. Text
- Understanding Illustrations
- Evaluate Claims & Supporting Evidence
- Compare & Contrast Nonfiction Texts
- Allusion
- Rhetoric, Ethos, Logos, Pathos
We all know kids will pay attention to anything that is on a screen. Whether you struggle with classroom management or you can't hook student interest in mini lessons, you can reduce teacher talk time and increase student focus by replacing lectures, mini-lessons and test prep review with videos that introduce, explain and give clear examples of secondary reading skills!
Don't stress about scripting a mini lesson or designing informational PowerPoint slides for a lecture or review session. Simply press play and let the engaging video do the work!
This is perfect for traditional mini lessons, test prep or as an engaging edtech tool for a blended classroom for students to watch independently on their personal computers or tablets.
Common Core ELA mini-lessons and edtech blended learning are fun and easy with videos!
ELA Skills (CCSS-aligned) and Videos
- Skill Set 1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing.
- Video Set 1: Commas, adjectives, adverbs, run-ons, comma splices, fragments, parallel sentence structure
- Skill Set 2: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
- Video Set 2: Critical reading strategies, literal & inferential questions, literal text evidence, making inferences
- Skill Set 3: Determine central idea or theme; Analyze development; summarize key supporting details & ideas.
- Video Set 3: Main Idea, Summary, Supporting Details. Moral, Lesson, Theme
- Skill Set 4: Analyze how and why individuals, events or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
- Video Set 4: Character traits, direct and indirect characterization, major & minor characters, character response to events, types of conflict, setting, plot elements, cause & effect, compare & contrast
- Skill Set 5: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
- Skill Set 6: Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
- Video Set 6: Text structures, sequencing, order of events, poetic meter, rhythm, repetition
- Skill Set 7: Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
- Video Set 7: Author’s purpose, point of view, irony (situational/verbal/dramatic) rhetoric, ethos, logos, pathos
- Skill Set 8: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats (visually, quantitatively, etc.)
- Video Set 8: Distinguish information in illustration vs. texts, understanding illustrations
- Skill Set 9: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
- Video Set 9: Evaluate claims and evidence
- Skill Set 10: Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
- Video Set 10: Compare and contrast nonfiction texts, allusion, rhetoric, ethos, logos, pathos
Want 75 pages of NO PREP lesson plans, student handouts & video links to teach & practice EVERY single common core standard for reading literature & reading informational texts (Grades 6 - 12) using engaging and inspirational short films? Download one of my ELA BUNDLES to teach, practice & assess EVERY single reading standard using fun video clips:
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Why wait? Never plan another mini-lesson! Never have disengaged students or classroom management stress again! Simply play videos to teach ELA skills! Download 80 ELA instructional videos to replace traditional mini-lessons or lectures (URL video links included) perfect for distance learning or Google Classroom!
