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Pbs Learning Media: American Portrait: Week 1: Building Classroom Community: A Month of Mindfulness & Student Empowerment
Bring PBS' American Portrait, a national storytelling project, into your classroom this school-year! Through the use of weekly prompts, and exemplar submissions from across the nation, you and your students will be able to partake in a...
Crash Course
Crash Course Study Skills #2: Reading Assignments
This video focuses on how to deal with large reading assignments including how to boost your speed in reading and how your working memory works. It also includes reading tips and the importance of practicing and maintaining focus while...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Engaging With Literature: Finding Common Ground
In this video [18:59], Bileni Teklu often focuses classroom instruction on developing her students' enjoyment of reading and appreciation for literature. Beginning each lesson with a brief 10- to 15-minute mini-lesson, Ms. Teklu devotes...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Reading and Understanding a Writing Prompt
In this lesson, you will learn how to read and understand what a prompt requires by underlining key words and deciding if you need to write a narrative or an essay. [2:45]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Connect Ideas in Informational Writing
In this lesson, students practice revising a draft about invasive species with a focus on using transitions to connect ideas across and within paragraphs. A video models the thought process writers use to apply the targeted skill and...
eSpark Learning
E Spark Learning: Comparing and Contrasting Reading Experience
In this lesson, a text and video version of the same story are compared and contrasted. [5:15]
PBS
Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Writing for Different Audiences
When you write for work, it is important to consider who your audience is and what they need to know.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: The Writing Process in It
People in the information technology industry write for work for many reasons therefore, it helps to have a strong writing process.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Planning Written Communication
When you write something for work, planning is an important first step and should include what do you want to say, who is your audience, and what is your format.
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Pbs: Language Arts: Resources for Adult Educators: Chronological Order
An adult educator explains and gives examples of chronological order in writing.
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Pbs Learning Media: American Portrait: Week 4: Building Classroom Community: A Month of Mindfulness & Student Empowerment
Bring PBS' American Portrait, a national storytelling project, into your classroom this school-year! Through the use of weekly prompts, and exemplar submissions from across the nation, you and your students will be able to partake in a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Portrait: Week 3: Building Classroom Community: A Month of Mindfulness & Student Empowerment
Bring PBS' American Portrait, a national storytelling project, into your classroom this school-year! Through the use of weekly prompts, and exemplar submissions from across the nation, you and your students will be able to partake in a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Portrait: Week 2: Building Classroom Community: A Month of Mindfulness & Student Empowerment
Bring PBS' American Portrait, a national storytelling project, into your classroom this school-year! Through the use of weekly prompts, and exemplar submissions from across the nation, you and your students will be able to partake in a...
Imagine Learning Classroom
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]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify the Purpose of an Opinion Essay
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify the purpose of an essay by using the action verbs and the subject in a prompt. Login gives access to a slideshow and a second video. [5:08]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Analytical Paper: Thesis: Lesson 1
This lesson discusses selecting a thesis for an analytical paper. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Analytical Paper: Thesis."
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Write Now! Stream of Consciousness
A video writing prompt that asks the following: what is the mountain biker thinking about while he completes his ride from start to finish line? [0:38] W.9-11.12 Write Routinely