Curated Video
Brainstorming Ideas for a Writing Prompt: Focusing on a Topic
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of brainstorming ideas before writing and provides a step-by-step process for students to follow. The lesson focuses on a writing prompt about a person who is special to them and how to...
Curated Video
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...
Curated Video
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...
Curated Video
Structuring Narrative Writing with Transitions
In this video, the teacher guides students on how to structure their narrative writing with a clear sequence of events and ideas. They explain the importance of using transitional words and phrases to signal the movement from one event...
Curated Video
Understanding the Structure of Narrative Writing
In this lesson, students practice revising a draft about writing narratives with a focus on the beginning, middle and end narrative sequence. A video models the thought process writers use to apply the targeted skill and improve their...
Curated Video
Using Boxes and Bullets to Plan Your Narrative Writing
In this video, the teacher provides a step-by-step guide on how to organize thoughts when writing to a prompt. Using boxes and bullets, the teacher demonstrates how to plan a narrative by clearly outlining the beginning, middle, and end...
Curated Video
ChatGPT Mastery - Crafting Effective Prompts for Optimal Results - Systematic Prompt Engineering
This video explores various systematic techniques and methodologies to optimize our prompts for better performance. You will learn to apply systematic prompt engineering to achieve more consistent and desired outcomes with ChatGPT. This...
Curated Video
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...
Curated Video
ChatGPT Mastery - Crafting Effective Prompts for Optimal Results - Creating a Children's Book - Outline
In this video, you will learn the importance of creating a well-structured outline for a children's book. We will discover the key elements to include in our outlines, such as the story arc, characters, and themes. We will understand how...
Curated Video
Writing an Interesting Narrative: Using Sensory Details and Checking Your Plan
In this video, the teacher guides students on how to write an interesting narrative that includes all parts of a given prompt. The teacher emphasizes the importance of checking their plan, using sensory details, and reading out loud to...
Curated Video
Organizing Your Thoughts: Using Boxes and Bullets to Plan Your Writing
In this video, the teacher explains how to organize thoughts when writing to a prompt. The teacher introduces the concept of using boxes and bullets to plan the different parts of a narrative. They provide an example prompt about things...
Curated Video
ChatGPT Mastery - Crafting Effective Prompts for Optimal Results - Writing the Opening Chapter
In this video, we will discover strategies for crafting an engaging opening chapter for our children's book. You will learn to hook readers from the beginning, introduce the main characters and setting, and set the tone for the story. We...
Curated Video
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...
Curated Video
Generating Story Ideas: Choosing the Best One
In this video, the teacher guides students on how to generate a storyline for their writing by using a web of ideas and choosing the one they can visualize the most. The teacher explains the prompt and the need to imagine and write a...
Wonderscape
Discovering Adjectives in a Story
This video encourages viewers to identify and understand the role of adjectives in a story about a cricket and an ant. It highlights various adjectives, including descriptive words about characters, settings, and emotions, demonstrating...
Lesson Planet
EdTech Tuesday: A+ Writing Prompts
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...
Lesson Planet
EdTech Tuesday: Write About This
Learn how to get your class writing with this quick video tutorial for the app Write About This. Watch as Rich and Jennifer preview the app and show you how to use its features. After viewing this video, you'll have a solid foundation...
TED-Ed
How to Write Fiction That Comes Alive
Launch a fiction writing unit with this video that encourages writers to craft their stories with language that permits readers to experience the illusions of their stories.
TED-Ed
How to Make Your Writing Funnier
Did you ever notice the art of comedy is indeed an art? Check out this video that contains quick and catchy tips and tricks for crafting comedy that will tickle your funny bone.
Bill of Rights Institute
Constitutional Principles: The Rule of Law
Invite your young citizens to consider the depth, significance, and necessity of the rule of law. This video focuses particularly on the American commitment to rule of law since the nation's inception with the...
TED-Ed
The Great Conspiracy Against Julius Caesar
What would you do if you thought your country was on the path to tyranny, and one man was gaining too much power? This animated video will engage your young historians with a thought-provoking query as it reviews the personal...
TED-Ed
How does anesthesia work?
Many people know the feeling of counting backward from 100 before a surgical procedure begins, but what actually happens between number 99 and waking up after surgery? Watch a short video about the different types of anesthesia, the...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify Key Ideas in a Narrative Writing Prompt
In this lesson, you will learn how to figure out what type of writing you should do to answer a prompt by identifying the key ideas in the prompt. [4:08]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identifying Key Ideas in a Narrative Writing Prompt
In this lesson, you will learn how to figure out what type of writing you should do to answer a prompt by identifying the key ideas in the prompt. [4:32]