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Developing Strong Essay Points: Sharing Your Opinion Effectively
This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to share your opinion through an essay. It explains the importance of having a strong thesis statement and listing reasons in order of importance to support your opinion. The video also...
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Paraphrasing Information from Expert Sources in Argumentative Writing
This video is a teacher's lesson on how to paraphrase information from expert sources in argumentative writing. The teacher explains the importance of using outside sources to strengthen an argument and provides step-by-step guidance on...
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Writing a Thesis Statement for an Argumentative Essay
In this video, the teacher explains how to write a thesis statement for an argumentative essay. They guide the students through the process of combining their claim and supporting reasons to create an effective thesis statement. The...
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Organizing Ideas and Evidence in a Persuasive Essay: Using Paragraph Form
In this video, the teacher provides a step-by-step guide on how to make a persuasive essay easy to read and well-organized. The lesson covers the importance of stating a claim and providing evidence, as well as the three steps of the...
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Creating Flow in Your Paragraphs: Using Transition Phrases to Connect Ideas
In this video, the teacher explains how to make paragraphs flow and connect in an essay. They discuss the importance of having a clear thesis statement and providing reasons and examples to support it. The teacher also emphasizes the use...
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Making Your Paragraphs Flow: Connecting Examples to Your Opinion
In this video, the teacher explains how to make paragraphs flow and connect in an essay. They emphasize the importance of connecting examples to the main opinion and provide prompts to help students add more coherence to their writing....
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Critical Reading & Writing - SAT Exam Strategy
This video covers exam strategies for the SAT. This is part 2 from the series 'Critical Reading & Writing'.
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Strengthening Your Argument: Using Clarifying Strategies in Essay Writing
In this video, the teacher discusses the importance of clarifying strategies in essay writing to strengthen arguments. They explain the use of clarifying questions such as who, what, when, where, how, and why. The teacher also emphasizes...
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Larry Ferlazzo - Helping Students Motivate Themselves
Larry Ferlazzo is an award-winning English and Social Studies teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, Calif. He is the author of Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers To Classroom Challenges, The ESL/ELL...
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Organizing Your Essay: What Does Your Reader Need to Know First?
This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to order the points of an essay in a logical and coherent manner. It emphasizes the importance of considering what the reader needs to know first and how to reorganize the essay outline to...
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Connecting Ideas in Persuasive Writing: Using Transitions
In this video, the teacher explains how to connect ideas in a text using example, addition, and contrast transitions. The goal of persuasive writing is to make it easy for the reader to understand and agree with the argument. Transitions...
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Using Anecdotes in Persuasive Writing
This video is a lesson on how to elaborate on supporting details in persuasive writing by using anecdotes. The video provides a step-by-step guide on how to incorporate anecdotes into an essay, emphasizing the need for true stories and...
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Identifying the Subject and Audience in Essay Prompts
In this video, the teacher explains how to identify the subject and audience of an essay prompt by analyzing the action verbs and repetition used. The teacher provides step-by-step instructions on underlining the relevant nouns,...
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Writing the First Draft of Your Essay
In this video, the teacher explains the process of writing the first draft of an essay using a boxes and bullets outline as a guide. The steps include writing each set of boxes and bullets as a new paragraph in full sentences, analyzing...
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Advanced Spanish: Reviewing Genders
A review of Spanish basics, this clip focuses on subject pronouns and agreement. This is part 1 in the series: 'Advanced Spanish: Reviewing the Basics'.
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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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Intro Spanish Lesson: The Spanish Alphabet
Learn the Spanish alphabet. This video will cover how to say the letters of the Spanish alphabet.
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Developing a Strong Thesis Statement in an Opinion Essay
In this video, the teacher explains how to share an opinion through an essay by developing a strong thesis statement and supporting it with reasons. The lesson emphasizes the importance of having a clear and defendable opinion, as well...
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Collecting and Citing Evidence for Your Argumentative Essay
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of gathering proper evidence to support an argumentative essay. They emphasize the need to avoid repetition and provide a step-by-step guide on how to collect supporting evidence, such...
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Writing a Strong Introductory Paragraph for an Argumentative Essay
In this video, the teacher provides a step-by-step guide on how to write a strong introductory paragraph for an argumentative essay. They emphasize the importance of engaging the reader in the topic by using a hook, such as an...
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Geometry, Volume and Coordinates.
This video covers exam strategy, Geometry, Volume, Coordinates, Slope Questions. This is part 15 from the series 'Introduction to the Math Section of the SAT'.
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Crafting a Powerful Conclusion: Restating Your Thesis and Encouraging Action
In this video, the teacher provides guidance on how to end an essay in a way that leaves the reader thinking. They emphasize the importance of restating the thesis, explaining why it's important, and inviting the reader to take action....
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How to Write a Powerful Conclusion for an Argumentative Essay
In this video, the teacher explains the steps to draft a strong conclusion for an argumentative essay. The steps include summarizing the argument, identifying a solution, and presenting the consequence of inaction. The teacher provides...