ELA Common Core Videos

Middle School Resources

ELA Common Core Resources - Videos that stress ELA teaching and learning strategies. Teacher instructed lessons show examples of how to incorporate the Common Core Standards within a lesson.



Collaboration | Point of View |Informational Text | Informational Reading 7th Gr.:




 

Middle School / Collaborative Discussions


Excellent example of this concept - Arguing the Pros and Cons of Teen Driving - Textual Evidence.






Middle School - Analyzing Point of View

Whole Class Instruction: Analyzing Point of View in Persuasive Texts (5-8) by TC Reading and Writing Project






Literacy - Informational Text

Common Core Literacy: Close Reading Strategies with Informational Text by Expeditionary Learning. Students in Andrew Hossack's 5th grade class use close reading strategies to determine the main idea and important details from a newspaper article about the Seneca people.

 





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Informational Reading Seventh Grade: CCSS - 7.RI.2

 

Common Core Literacy: Find the main ideas in a text and assess their development over the course a text; give an objective summary.
When reading text, you may be asked to find two or more central ideas. A way to do this is by looking at each paragraph of the text. This video shows you how to find the main idea in a paragraph.