Language Arts Skills Index
The Language Arts and the Math and Science Skills Indexes are designed to help you integrate the TV411 videos, web lessons, and print downloads into your classroom's curriculum. Use the dropdown menu below to browse the full catalog of our language arts materials by the skill or content area they address.
| Type | Description | Skill/Content |
|---|---|---|
| Lesson |
Strategies for Better Reading Reading, just like playing a sport, improves with practice. Good readers use strategies, or techniques, that help them understand and remember what they’re reading. |
Main Idea, Prediction, and Inference |
| Lesson |
Summarizing Good books, articles, and movies are full of interesting details. But when you’re discussing them with a friend, you want to make a long story short. In other words, you summarize. |
Main Idea, Prediction, and Inference |
| Print Lesson |
Tackling Multiple Choice Click on the title to download the worksheet. |
Main Idea, Prediction, and Inference |
| Video |
Video: Summarizing A cop on the beat demonstrates the art of summarizing. |
Main Idea, Prediction, and Inference |
| Video |
Video: Newspaper Reading While at a diner, Question Man (Joey Kola) and another customer use various strategies to decipher a difficult newspaper article. |
Main Idea, Prediction, and Inference |
| Video |
Video: Newspaper Stories Dennis Franz gives a tip on reading a newspaper article. |
Main Idea, Prediction, and Inference |