Instructional Video1:43
Teaching Without Frills

Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 2: Brainstorming & Choosing a Topic

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how to brainstorm and then choose the best topic by thinking about the following questions: "What do I know a lot about?" "Who is my audience?" "What am I interested in?"
Instructional Video0:59
Teaching Without Frills

Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 1: What Is It?

3rd - 5th
In this series, learn how to write your own informational book! In this video, you will learn about the features of informational writing.
Instructional Video1:56
Teaching Without Frills

Realistic Fiction Writing for Kids Episode 5: Writing a Closing

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how to write a closing or conclusion for your realistic fiction story. We will review different strategies such as writing about a lesson learned, adding humor, and discussing feelings.
Instructional Video1:38
Teaching Without Frills

Realistic Fiction Writing for Kids Episode 1: What Is It?

3rd - 5th
In this series, you will learn how to write realistic fiction stories! In this video, we will describe the elements of realistic fiction, including the characters, setting, and events.
Instructional Video1:12
Teaching Without Frills

Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 6: Writing a Closing

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how to write a closing or conclusion for your informational writing. We will discuss different types of closing strategies, such as summarizing the main points and providing a next step for the reader.
Instructional Video2:02
Teaching Without Frills

How-To Writing For Kids - Procedural Writing - Episode 4: Revising Steps

3rd - 5th
In this series, you will learn how to write a How-To! If you have chosen a topic, written an introduction, and written steps, you are ready to revise your steps to make them even better. Be sure to add details so the reader knows exactly...
Instructional Video1:51
Teaching Without Frills

How-To Writing For Kids - Procedural Writing - Episode 2: Writing an Introduction

3rd - 5th
f you have brainstormed and chosen a topic for your How-To book, you are ready to start writing an introduction! An introduction should hook the reader, name your topic, and tell the reader what materials are needed.
Instructional Video3:33
Teaching Without Frills

How to Write a Research Paper for Kids - Episode 4: Writing a Draft

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how use your research paper plan to write a first draft. We will write an introduction, facts we learned from our research, and a closing to end our research report.
Instructional Video3:32
Teaching Without Frills

How to Write a Research Paper for Kids - Episode 3: Researching

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how to start researching a topic after you make a plan for your animal research paper. We will check to make sure the facts we already knew are really true. Then we'll learn even more information in books,...
Instructional Video2:08
Teaching Without Frills

How to Write a Research Paper for Kids | Episode 2 | Making a Plan

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how to make a plan for your research paper before you begin researching. We'll discuss how to choose categories of "big ideas" that will serve as subtopics in your report!
Instructional Video3:52
Teaching Without Frills

Realistic Fiction Writing for Kids Episode 6: Revising Your Story

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how to revise your realistic fiction story to improve your writing. We will discuss how to add, change, or remove parts of your story to make it even better!
Instructional Video2:01
Teaching Without Frills

Realistic Fiction Writing for Kids Episode 3: Writing an Introduction

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how to write an introduction for your realistic fiction story! An introduction should hook the reader and introduce the main character and setting.
Instructional Video1:40
Teaching Without Frills

Persuasive Writing for Kids - Episode 5: Writing an Introduction

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how you can hook the reader of your persuasive writing with a good introduction! We will start with a question and then state our opinion.
Instructional Video1:57
Teaching Without Frills

Persuasive Writing for Kids - Episode 3: Making a Plan

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how to make a plan for your persuasive writing. We will think about the audience for our writing, and choose reasons that would be the most convincing to them.
Instructional Video2:23
Teaching Without Frills

Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 8: Making a Glossary

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how to make a glossary for your informational writing book. We will discuss how to choose important key words and provide short definitions.
Instructional Video1:48
Teaching Without Frills

Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 7: Making a Table of Contents

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how to make a table of contents for your own informational writing book.
Instructional Video2:20
Teaching Without Frills

Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 5: Writing a Draft

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how to write a first draft of your informational book. We will discuss how to use headings to organize the facts that go together. We will also draw and label pictures that help to teach the reader more...
Instructional Video1:41
Teaching Without Frills

How-To Writing For Kids - Procedural Writing - Episode 5: Writing a Closing

3rd - 5th
In this series, you will learn how to write a How-To! If you have chosen a topic, written an introduction, written steps, and revised your steps, you are ready to end your book with a closing or conclusion!
Instructional Video3:50
Teaching Without Frills

How to Write a Research Paper for Kids - Episode 5: Revising

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how to revise your research paper to improve your writing. We will add, change, or remove parts to make our writing even better!
Instructional Video1:35
Teaching Without Frills

How to Write a Research Paper for Kids Episode 1: Brainstorming Topics

3rd - 5th
This video series will teach you how to write a research paper or report. Each episode leads you through each step of the writing process. In this video, you will learn how to brainstorm research topic ideas!
Instructional Video3:00
Teaching Without Frills

Writing a Personal Narrative for Kids - Episode 8: Publishing for Kids

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how to publish your personal narrative story. Publishing means getting your writing ready to share with others!
Instructional Video3:07
Teaching Without Frills

Writing a Personal Narrative for Kids - Episode 3: Writing an Introduction

3rd - 5th
In this video, you will learn how to write an introduction for your personal narrative story. We discuss different strategies, such as using sound, dialogue, questions, and describing the setting.
Instructional Video4:50
Lesson Planet

EdTech Tuesday: A+ Writing Prompts

4th - 12th
Thousands of prompts? Great! Rich and Jennifer tell you how to use this prompt-generating app, which can enhance your curriculum and provide a fabulous variety of topics for your class to write about. Listen for application ideas and...