Instructional Video3:03
PBS

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

6th - 12th Standards
Douglas Adams' hysterical send-up of bureaucratic thinking, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is the focus of a Great American Read video that urges viewers to vote for one of the greatest satires since Gulliver's Travels.
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Consider an Author's Choices and Purpose Using Text Structure

3rd - 6th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to think about the choices an author made by asking "Why did the author choose to write it this way instead of that way?" [2:41]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques: Setting

9th - 10th Standards
Explore how authors use setting to establish the time, place, and social conditions in which a story takes place in this short animated video [2:38] from WNET.