Ruediger Elementary School

This playlist has 45 reading skills videos through McGraw Hill youtube channel. You can select a skill on the playlist to review or listen through the playlist. 

This video teaches what pronouns are, how they reduce repetition in writing, and the three rules of pronoun-antecedent agreement.

Setting is one of the five essential elements of a story. It establishes the mood, reveals characters and conflicts, and gives clues to a story's theme. In this video, we’ll see how time and place can do more than just give context. Students will learn to pay attention to “the where” and “the when” as they read and make inferences about a text.

How do authors organize the texts they write? This unit teaches five common text structures used in informational and nonfiction text: description, sequence, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and problem and solution.

This fun instructional cartoon from SRA FLEX Literacy introduces students to how characters respond to major events in a story -- a key character analysis skill of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts

Introduce your students to metaphors - a key reading skill of the common core state standards (CCSS) for English language arts

This instructional cartoon from SRA FLEX Literacy provides an entertaining and informative animation to help introduce students to Main Idea or Main Topic.

This quick animation provides a fun and engaging introduction to evaluating claims supported by evidence and those that are not.

This instructional cartoon from SRA FLEX Literacy provides an entertaining and informative introduction to introduce students to Order/Sequence of Events - a key reading and English language arts concept of the Common Core State Standards.

This brief instructional animation from SRA FLEX Literacy provides an entertaining and informative introduction to using similes in figurative language - a key reading and English language arts concept of the Common Core State Standards.

This fun animated cartoon help explains how time and location are elements of a story's setting.

This quick animation provides a fun and engaging introduction to the narrator's point of view, a key literary analysis skill of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

This quick animation provides a fun and engaging introduction to identify major events in a sequence.

This quick animation provides a fun and engaging introduction to making inferences, a key inferencing skill of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

This quick animation provides a fun and engaging introduction to comparing and contrasting two or more characters, settings, events, drawing on specific details of story.

This quick animation provides a fun and engaging introduction to describe how dialogue and incidents propel character/action decisions, a key character analysis skill of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

This short graphic-novel themed animation explains how to find multiple main ideas in the same passage of text. This is a key English Language Arts skill required for advanced reading comprehension.

This fun literacy skills cartoon shows students how to identify themes in a story as Aesop tells the fable of The Monkey and The Dolphin.

This fun cartoon demonstrates for students how to determine the moral of a fable as Modern Day Aesop recounts the fable of The Fox and The Grapes to his teenage daughter.

This quick animation provides a fun and engaging introduction to Author's Purpose, a key viewpoint skill of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.

This quick animation provides a fun and engaging introduction to text structure.

A video to explain the text structure cause and effect.

This quick animation provides a fun and engaging introduction to Text Structure - Compare and Contrast.

This quick animation provides a fun and engaging introduction to Text Structure - Compare and Contrast.

This quick animation provides a fun and engaging introduction to Using text features to locate information in texts, a key text features skill of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts