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Instructional Strategies Playlist  Directions

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Narrative Nonfiction Jeopardy: Michelle Obama

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Narrative Nonfiction Jeopardy: Michelle Obama

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Michelle Obama Passage for Jeopardy

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Newsela article for Malala Yousafzai

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Malala Yousafzai Board Game and Question Cards 

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When using videos, practice sorting, ranking, and categorizing orally with students. Students may work in partnerships to discuss attributes of the video.

1. Identifying character traits: Jot down traits for your character (ex. Partner A: Bully, Partner B: Lou)

2. Collecting text evidence: Choose one trait that you think you have more evidence for. Watch the beginning of the clip again and jot down evidence to support the trait. Partners share their evidence.

3. Ranking evidence: Rank your evidence by thinking, "Which evidence best supports this trait?"

4. Character Changes and Problems:

Partner A: Look for new character traits in the characters. Do the characters stay the same or do they change? How did they change? Why?

Partner B: Look for any problems in the video. What are the hidden issues? What are the explicit (or obvious conflicts)?

5. Themes: Discuss the themes that are presented in the video.

Structure: Make a story mountain and place the events, structure, and theme in the appropriate places.

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Cesar Chavez - American Civil Rights Activist | Mini Bio | BIO

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: Biography for Children, American History for Kids - FreeSchool

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Essential Standard: 5.6F

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Test-taking Small Group for Below Benchmark Readers

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Test-taking Small Group for Below Benchmark Readers

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When using videos, practice sorting, ranking, and categorizing orally with students. Students may work in partnerships to discuss attributes of the video. Be sure to allow students to watch video from start to finish first to begin thinking about the main ideas.

1. Identifying the main idea(s): Jot down the topic(s) and begin create a web to take notes. Stop and begin to generate the main idea statement(s).

2. Collecting text evidence:  Watch the beginning of the clip again and jot down evidence to support the ideas. Partners share their evidence.

3. Ranking evidence: Rank your evidence by thinking, "Which evidence best supports these ideas?"

4. Structure and Purpose:

Partner A: Look for how the author organized the information? Take notes using the same structure.

Partner B: Look for any craft techniques the author used in the video. What is the author's main purpose for creating this video?

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Educational Videos for Students (Cartoons on Bullying, Leadership & More)

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LeBron James Biography for students (Highlights) | Sports History | NBA Basketball Legend

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Skill: Determining Theme(s)
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Use to teach author's purpose in dramatic literature

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Use to teach author's purpose in dramatic literature

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Vincent van Gogh for Children: Biography for Kids - FreeSchool

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Skill: Character Traits
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Video Read Aloud: The Present (Skill: Character Traits)

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Michael Jordan - Basketball Player | Mini Bio | BIO

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Small Group or Center Practice with Poetry

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Small Group or Center Practice with Poetry

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The Fight for Fair Housing in Milwaukee: Vel Phillips and James Groppi

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The Fight for Fair Housing in Milwaukee: Vel Phillips and James Groppi

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Theme: Following a Character Up and Down the Story Mountain

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How can we find the theme, or life lesson of a story?

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Small Group or Center Practice with Drama

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Small Group or Center Practice with Drama

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The Birth of Hip Hop | The Kid Should See This

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In 1973, DJ Kool Herc set up his turntables and introduced a technique at a South Bronx house party that would change music as many people knew it. His ability to switch from record to record — as well as isolate and repeat music breaks — led to the discovery of the hip hop genre.

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The Birth of Hip Hop | The Kid Should See This

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In 1973, DJ Kool Herc set up his turntables and introduced a technique at a South Bronx house party that would change music as many people knew it. His

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Skill: Part to Whole
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Copy of Vocabulary_Pyramid_Poetry and Drama_Grade 5

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Hidden Stories: Dorothy Vaughan | The Kid Should See This

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Dorothy Vaughan was a mathematician, a human computer, and an electronic computing pioneer who helped send satellites into space and put the first man on the moon. Back when NASA was called NACA, Vaughan led around 400 female African American mathematicians within NASA Langley‘s segregated West Area Computing unit

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Inside the Tornado | National Geographic

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Let's Begin...

About 10,000 years ago, humans began to farm. This agricultural revolution was a turning point in our history and enabled the existence of civilization. Today, nearly 40% of our planet is farmland. Spread all over the world, these lands are the pieces to a global puzzle we're all facing: in the future, how can we feed every member of a growing population a healthy diet? Brent Loken investigates.

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About TED-Ed Animations

TED-Ed Animations feature the words and ideas of educators brought to life by professional animators. Are you an educator or animator interested in creating a TED-Ed Animation? Nominate yourself here "

Meet The Creators

Educator Brent Loken

Director Luísa Holanda

Narrator Jack Cutmore-Scott

Storyboard Artist Luísa Holanda

Animator Danila Rbeiro, Murilo Jardim, Luísa Holanda

Compositor Gabriel Maia

Art Director Luísa Holanda

Sound Designer Gabriel Maia

Music Gabriel Maia

Hype Executive Producer Gabriel Garcia

Hype Line Producer Taíla Soliman

Director of Production Gerta Xhelo

Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal

Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott

Editorial Producer Elizabeth Cox

Script Editor Emma Bryce

Fact-Checker Eden Girma

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Can we create the "perfect" farm? - Brent Loken

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About 10,000 years ago, humans began to farm. This agricultural revolution was a turning point in our history and enabled the existence of civilization. Today, nearly 40% of our planet is farmland. Spread all over the world, these lands are the pieces to a global puzzle we're all facing: in the future, how can we feed every member of a growing population a healthy diet?

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What really happens to the plastic you throw away - Emma Bryce

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Poetry Center: Be a Poetry Inspector _SP

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Poetry Center: Be a Poetry Inspector _SP

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Copy of Author's Craft: Argument Goals & Techniques - POETRY

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can be used on marathon reading days

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STAAR When reading a narrative story_SP.pdf

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3.6(F), 4.6(F), 5.6(F)