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Sophia: How to Read a Writing Assignment
This video lesson focuses on how to read and understand a writing assignment. It begins by defining keywords used in assignments: analyze, compare and contrast, evaluate, describe, and propose. Then using a sample assignment, it...
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Learn Zillion: Write a Conclusion for a Narrative by Showing How You Feel
In this lesson, you will learn how to to create strong endings for your narratives by showing the reader how you feel. [4:50]
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Learn Zillion: Lesson Video for 'Analyze the Structure of a Dramatic Text'
In this lesson, you will learn how to analyze the structure of a dramatic text by creating a timeline of events. [6:15]
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Learn Zillion: Lesson Video for 'Develop Well Structured Event Sequences'
In this lesson, you will learn how to plan an imagined narrative reading response by developing well-structured event sequences. [7:11]
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Learn Zillion: Drafting a Narrative Response to a Prompt
In this lesson, you will learn how to respond to the prompt by checking your plan often and using sensory details to show what happens. [3:33]
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Learn Zillion: Plan a Narrative by Constructing an Outline
In this lesson, you will learn how to plan your narrative by constructing an outline. Login gives access to a slideshow as well. [7:19]
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Learn Zillion: Write a Final Draft of a Narrative Story
In this lesson, you will learn how to write a final draft of a narrative reading response by incorporating all revisions in the correct order. [5:44]
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Learn Zillion: Video: Explain How Character's Actions Contribute to the Sequence
In this lesson, you will learn to describe how the characters' traits and motivations contribute to the sequence of events by asking, 'What character trait or motivation made this event happen?' [7:58]
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Learn Zillion: Planning a Response to a Writing Prompt
In this lesson, you will learn how to plan your writing by using boxes and bullets to organize each part of your narrative. [4:29]
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Learn Zillion: Organize a Personal Narrative in Chronological Order
In this lesson, you will learn how to tell your story step-by-step by getting the memory in your head and thinking "What happened first, then next, then next." [5:27]
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Learn Zillion: Write a Rough Draft of a Narrative Story in Complete Sentences
In this lesson, you will learn how to write a rough draft of a narrative reading response by using your planning chart to write the events of the story in complete sequenced sentences. Login gives access to a slideshow as well. [5:51]
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Learn Zillion: Create a Timeline of an Important Event in Your Life
In this lesson, you will learn how to improve your personal narrative by using a timeline to remember important details. [7:20]
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Learn Zillion: Organize the Story So That the Plot Begins Naturally
In this lesson, students learn how to organize their stories to begin by grabbing their reader's attention, and practice revising introductions by deleting unneeded information. [8:40]
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Learn Zillion: Analyze a Writing Prompt
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine what to write about by analyzing a writing prompt. Login gives access to a slideshow as well. [6:37]
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Learn Zillion: Use Transitional Words and Phrases to Craft a Sequence of Events
In this lesson, you will learn how to write a narrative reading response that has events that make sense by writing the events of the story in the correct order. [8:02]
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Learn Zillion: Develop Events in a Narrative Using Description and Dialogue
In this lesson, you will learn to develop experiences and events in a narrative by using description and dialogue. Login gives access to a slideshow as well. [7:05]
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Just Add Students: Using Videos to Teach Students About Narrative Writing
This resource provides several mini-lessons for teachers to use with students who are writing narratives. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3
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Learn Zillion: Use Specific Words to Describe Events and Setting
In this lesson, students use precise words and phrases to create mental images for their readers, and practice adding specific words to make the writing come alive. [9:29]
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Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques: Setting
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.
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Pbs: City of Gold: The Story of South Pass City: Wyoming Gold Rush
Learn about the Wyoming gold rush that occurred in South Pass City, and explore the varied perspectives of the people who experienced the gold rush in the 1840s-1860s.
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Learn Zillion: Analyze a Writing Prompt to Determine the Subject and Audience
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify the subject and audience of your essay by using the action verbs and repetition in the prompt. [4:09]
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Learn Zillion: Organize Ideas Chronologically for a Narrative
In this lesson, you will learn how to tell your story step-by-step by getting the memory in your head and thinking "What happened first, then next, then next." [4:43]
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Learn Zillion: Planning a Narrative Response to a Prompt
In this lesson, you will plan your writing by using boxes and bullets to organize each part of your narrative. [4:04]
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Learn Zillion: Organize Ideas Chronologically for a Narrative
In this lesson, you will learn how to tell your story step-by-step by getting the memory in your head and thinking "What happened first, then next, then next." [5:17]