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Writing Effective Body Paragraphs: Stating Reasons and Supporting with Evidence
In this video, the teacher explains how to write effective body paragraphs when responding to a writing prompt. The teacher emphasizes the importance of organizing supporting information and avoiding laundry list paragraphs. The students...
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Understanding Writing Prompts
In this video, the teacher explains how to understand and analyze writing prompts. They emphasize the importance of underlining key words in the prompt and determining whether a narrative or essay is required. The teacher then provides...
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Understanding Writing Prompts: How to Decode and Respond
In this video, the teacher explains how to understand and analyze writing prompts. They emphasize the importance of circling keywords and determining whether to write a narrative or an essay. The teacher provides an example prompt and...
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Writing a Thesis Statement: Expressing the Main Idea
In this video, the teacher explains the process of writing a thesis statement to express the main idea. They use the analogy of legs of a stool to represent the similarities and emphasize the importance of understanding what the prompt...
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Choosing the Best Story Idea
In this video lesson, the teacher guides students on how to choose the best story idea when writing to a prompt. They review a list of possible story ideas and discuss the importance of imagining the story before writing. The teacher...
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Writing Effective Opening Paragraphs: Hooking the Reader and Stating Your Thesis
In this video, the teacher explains how to effectively begin a response to a writing prompt. They emphasize the importance of hooking the reader and clearly stating the thesis statement. The teacher provides an example of a hook sentence...
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Adding Realistic and Exciting Details about Characters
In this lesson, students will learn how to make their writing more realistic and exciting by adding details about the characters. They will review the five steps of the writing process and focus on revising their work to make it better.
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Organizing Pre Writing Notes to Answer a Writing Prompt
In this video, the teacher explains how to organize pre-writing notes to answer a writing prompt. They emphasize the importance of using a plan and identifying the most important supporting details. The teacher provides an example of...
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Understanding Writing Prompts: Identifying Key Ideas and Writing Types
In this video, the teacher explains to students how to approach a writing prompt by identifying key ideas and understanding what type of writing is required. Using a specific prompt as an example, the teacher demonstrates how to circle...
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Creating Strong Endings: How to Leave the Audience with Strong Feelings
In this video lesson, the teacher guides students on how to create strong endings for their narratives by effectively conveying their emotions. The teacher explains the five steps of the writing process and provides a specific example of...
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Writing a Strong Response: Combining Prompt, Answer, and Evidence
In this video, the teacher explains how to respond to an open-ended prompt by combining wording from the prompt, your answer, and evidence. The teacher guides the students through the steps of analyzing the prompt, finding evidence,...
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Creating Strong Endings: Showcasing Your Feelings in Writing
In this video, the teacher discusses the importance of creating a strong ending in writing to leave a good impression on the audience. They guide students through the steps of revising their work, focusing on how they feel about the...
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Wrapping Up Your Answer: Telling Your Reasons
In this video, the teacher discusses the importance of wrapping up your answer in a constructed response. They provide steps to follow, such as analyzing the prompt, finding evidence, and judging the evidence. The teacher emphasizes the...
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Citing Evidence from the Text
In this video, the teacher explains how to use evidence from a text to support a response. They provide step-by-step instructions on locating evidence, rewriting it in your own words, and citing the source. The teacher emphasizes the...
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Crafting Effective Opinion Statements
In this video, the teacher guides students through the process of writing opinion statements that are not too narrow for the topic. The teacher explains the concept of narrowness and provides examples to help students understand. They...
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Staying Focused on the Prompt: Reviewing Anecdotes in Your Writing
In this video, the teacher provides guidance on how to ensure that anecdotes in writing stay focused on the given prompt. They emphasize the importance of reviewing and revising your work to make sure it answers the prompt effectively....
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Writing Stories That Make Sense: Using Transition Words
In this video lesson, the teacher explains how to write stories that make sense to readers by using transition words. The lesson covers the steps of the writing process, including understanding the prompt, brainstorming ideas, making a...
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Writing a Strong Closing Paragraph: Referring to the Prompt and Big Ideas
In this video, the teacher explains how to write a closing paragraph that stays on topic for a prompt. The teacher emphasizes the importance of referring back to the prompt and the main ideas of the response. They provide step-by-step...
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Interpreting and Understanding Prompts
In this video, the teacher explains how to interpret a long prompt by summarizing, restating, and inferring. They provide a step-by-step approach to understanding the prompt for an article about different professionals and what they have...
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Organizing Ideas and Telling Your Story
In this video lesson, students learn how to organize their ideas when writing to a prompt. They are guided through the process of imagining their story as a movie in their mind's eye, saying it out step by step, and jotting down the...
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How to Write an Interesting Essay: Crafting Supporting Points and a Conclusion
In this video, the teacher explains how to write an interesting essay that fully addresses the prompt. They emphasize the importance of including a conclusion that reminds the reader of the main points discussed. The teacher provides...
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Brainstorming Ideas for a Writing Prompt
In this video lesson, students will learn how to brainstorm ideas for a writing prompt. The teacher guides them through the process of rereading the prompt, thinking of possible story ideas, and making a list of at least five ideas. This...
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Writing Lively and Engaging Stories: Adding Similes
In this video lesson, students will learn how to write lively and engaging stories by incorporating similes. The teacher reviews the definition of a simile and explains how it can enhance storytelling. Students are guided through the...
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Locating Evidence in a Text by Skimming
In this video, the teacher explains how to find evidence in a text by skimming and marking related sentences. They emphasize the importance of selecting the right amount of evidence, neither too much nor too little, to support the...