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Literacy In Action for Ninth - Twelfth Grade Teachers
These videos of exemplary teacher practice are aligned to the strands of the ELA Standards.  Thank you to The Teaching Channel, America Achieves, and You Tube for the collection. To access America Achieves, users must create a free log in.

• Using Anchor Texts to Distill Big Ideas
• High School Reading 
• High School English
• Archetypals in Literature
• Article Analysis.
• Analyzing Shakespeare Through Questioning
• The Art of Questioning
• Designing Leveled Questions
• Using Questioning to Develop Understanding
• Text Analysis: Questions & Symbols
• Author's Purpose: Analyzing & Adapting Texts
• Using Questioning to Develop Understanding
• Author's Purpose: Analyzing & Adapting Texts
• Analyzing Macbeth
• ​Text Analysis: Questions & Symbols
• Pattern Folders:  A Literacy Analysis Tool
• Learning to Think:  A Foundation for Analysis
• ​The Catcher in the Rye
• Learning to Think: Scaffolding ​
• Visual Literacy: Reading Images
• ​Author's Message with Multiple Texts - see video on the right
• Connotation and Exile - Examining claims
• Characterization in "The Dead"
• Big Brother is Watching You
• Building Knowledge Through Vocabulary
• Close Reading
  
  
  

• Intro to Technology Integration
• Writing in 21st Century​​
• ​Arguments
• Writing an Argument
• Inference and Informational Text
• Explanatory Writing Part 1
• Explanatory Writing Part 2 ​
• Understanding Craft and Structure, Part I 
• Understanding Craft and Structure, Part II
• Small Group Writing​​
• Living Wax Museum: Researching and Portraying
• Soliloquy to Love: Writing Soliloquies​
• Creating Found Poems
• ​Grant Writing: Building Literature and Community
• Analyzing Texts with Storyboards
• ​Five Steps to Revision
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• Langston Hughes Close Reading: I, Too, Sing America
• Citing Evidence from Complex Text​
• Google Docs in the Classroom​​
• Evidence and Arguments: Ways of Experiencing a Text​
• Evidence and Arguments:  Lesson Reflection​​
• Sophomore Speeches: What it Means to be a Learner
• Socratic Seminar​
• Cross Discipline Socratic Seminar
• ​Critical Friends: Collaborating as Writers

• Five Keys to Assessment