PBS
Documenting the Dust Bowl
Paul Taylor's interviews and Dorothea Lange's photographs bring to life the unimaginable devastation of the Dust Bowl. After watching a short video from PBS, viewers are asked to imagine how they would react, whether they would stay or...
PBS
Character Study: Scout Finch
Scout Finch, the rough-and-tumble protagonist of Harper Lee's iconic To Kill a Mockingbird, learns quite a bit about how the world works as she observes her father's defense of Tom Robinson. Learn more about Scout and her distinctive...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Determining Your Audience
A series of four screencasts explaining the importance of audience. Students learn the difference between the real audience and the audience the writer intends, how to create a specific audience instead of a general audience, how the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: General and Specific Audiences
This video lesson focuses on analyzing your audience and tailoring your writing to it. It discusses the 4 types of audiences: real, intended, general, and specific; it explains how to choose writing styles such as tone, vocabulary, and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Organizing Your Paper
This tutorial focuses on organizing a paper. It provides three videos: the first video covers graphic organizers and how each is best used; the second one discusses the purpose, audience, and context of the writing and offers 5 methods...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Anticipating and Responding to Readers' Questions
This tutorial focuses on audiences and anticipating and responding to their questions using 2 videos. The first video focuses on determining, defining, and discussing real, intended, general, and specific audiences and also audience...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Clarity
A video lesson explaining the importance of clarity in effective writing and showing some examples of how to make writing more clear. [9:45] W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.c and CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.4
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Sophia: Concise Language: Avoiding Redundancy
This screencast offers several methods to help readers spot and fix redundancy in their writing. She discusses why concise writing is important, and specific ways to edit for a more expressive, concise text. Includes short quiz. [3:32]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Audience and Writing Style
A screencast lesson defining different types of audience, discussing the importance of determining an audience, and explaining how a writing style should be chosen based on the needs and expectations of the intended audience.[5:18]...
Other
Write to Top: Cohesion and Coherence
This video explains what cohesion and coherence are. The instructor explains ways to incorporate cohesion into essays. [22:46]
ABCkidTV
You Tube: How to Write for Your Audience Writing Video for Kids
This video [4:04] will help you learn how to write for your audience in narrative, informational, and persuasive writing. You'll learn about writing style, formal and informal word choice, and tone.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing for an Audience
This lesson introduces the concept of writing for an audience. [7:18]