This video podcast presents an active reading strategy called making connections. It explains what it means to make connections while reading. Watch this video for a demonstration on annotating a text.
The Holocaust is over. In fact, it's more than a half-century in the past. Ancient history, right? Unfortunately, that's not exactly true. Because the thing that caused the Holocaust is still bubbling up in schools and neighborhoods around the world today. What is it? And, more importantly, how can you stop it? Here's the 60second Recap®.
This video models the strategy of monitoring comprehension while reading a text. The instructor reads aloud an excerpt about Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. She then stops to take note of the connections between key events and the lives of these women. Although passages are annotated, the text is impossible to read from images of a book that are shown. Clear blocks of text are displayed at the end.
This video introduces what type of vocabulary to expect on a standardized test. It does not go into much detail.
General Colin Powell (Ret.) delivers the Gettysburg Address
If you're dreading reading Homer's "Odyssey," 60sR has news for you: This guy was, too, until he discovered the smokin'-hot nymph and the monsters that snacked on Odysseus's companions and Odysseus's absurd strength. In fact, to hear him tell it, "The Odyssey" might actually be a pretty good read.
John Steinbeck didn't know it, but decades after his book "The Grapes of Wrath" hit shelves, another American icon would also use his art to promote a similar message. Up next, "The Grapes of Wrath" according to Michael Jackson ... and a 60second Recap® of Steinbeck's masterpiece.
If Oedipus has just accepted the truth, the plot of this play would have been so straightforward. Instead—and unfortunately for you—Oedipus is quite versed in the art of denial. And that means you'll have to stick out a few plot loop-de-loops before the truth becomes clear. Don't worry, though. 60second Recap® has some hints to help you out along the way.
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