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Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 3: Making a Plan
In this video, you will learn how to make a plan for your informational writing. You can think about the structure of your book and the subtopics you will include. This will help you organize your ideas before writing!
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Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 7: Making a Table of Contents
In this video, you will learn how to make a table of contents for your own informational writing book.
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How to Make Your Writing Sound Smarter (Informal vs. Formal Tone)
In this video, I discuss the difference between formal and informal writing. I give an example of each and then go through a bunch of tips and tricks to write formally. If you follow the information in this video, your writing will sound...
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Body Paragraph of an Informative Text | EasyTeaching
New ReviewLearn how to structure a body paragraph for an informative text. In this lesson, we break down the three essential parts of a body paragraph: the topic sentence, supporting sentences, and the concluding sentence.Discover how to write...
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Informative Writing
Miss Palomine explains to the student that aside from writing for entertainment, writing can also be done to provide information. She introduces informative writing by reading excerpts from a book about seahorses, a book about...
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Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 6: Writing a Closing
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.
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Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 1: What Is It?
In this series, learn how to write your own informational book! In this video, you will learn about the features of informational writing.
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Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 8: Making a Glossary
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.
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Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 5: Writing a Draft
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...
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How to Write for Your Audience - Writing Video For Kids
This video 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.
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Maintaining a Formal Writing Style
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using a formal writing style to be more convincing in your writing. They provide examples of informal and formal writing styles and discuss the rules of formal writing, such as...
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Strengthening Your Argument with a Formal Writing Style
In this video, the teacher discusses the importance of maintaining a formal writing style in arguments to enhance credibility. They provide examples and explanations of how to revise informal language, eliminate contractions, and choose...
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Arguments In Writing
New ReviewThis video discusses informal and formal in argumentative writing.
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Formal and Informal Style
Formal and Informal Styles compares and contrasts formal and informal styles by analyzing examples of each style.
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A Review of Entertaining, Informative, and Persuasive Writing
Miss Palomine reviews entertaining, informative, and persuasive writing. She then shows the student examples of different kids of writing and asks the student to determine if the writing is entertaining, informative, or persuasive.
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Improving Clarity in Informational Writing with Transition Words and Phrases
In this video, the teacher explains how to make writing clear in an informational text by adding transition words and phrases. The teacher guides the students through the process of identifying chapters, reviewing beginning and ending...
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Mastering Technical Vocabulary in Informational Writing
In this video, the teacher provides tips on how to sound like an expert when writing an informational text. They emphasize the importance of adding technical vocabulary and provide examples of how to identify missing terms in research...
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Informational Writing for Kids- Episode 4: Writing an Introduction
In this video, you will learn how to write an introduction for your informational book. We will discuss strategies to hook the reader and introduce your topic.
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Adding Textual Features in Informational Writing
In this video, the teacher explains how to enhance readers' understanding in informational texts by adding textual features. They emphasize the importance of identifying areas of unclear information and thinking from the perspective of a...
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TED-ED: How misused modifiers can hurt your writing - Emma Bryce
Modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that add information about other parts of a sentence-which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren't linked clearly enough to the words they're actually referring to, they can create...
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Using Dashes to Indicate Pauses or Breaks
In this video, the teacher explains how to use a dash to indicate a pause or break in writing. The lesson distinguishes between formal and informal writing and provides examples of when to use an en dash or an m dash.
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Writing the second entry of Florence Nightingale's diary
Pupil outcome: I can write the second entry of Florence Nightingale's diary. Key learning points: - A diary is an informal piece of writing. - One of the features of informal writing is contracted words. - When writing informally, we use...
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Expository Writing
Expository Writing explains the concept of informational writing by citing the characteristics and describing the purpose of expository text.
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Informational: Problem/Solution
“Informational: Problem/Solution” video lesson explores informational texts, focusing on the problem and solution structure and explaining how to identify problems and solutions in texts.