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Review for You:Writing a Letter
Mr. Griot reads a story about protecting the environment and is so impressed he decides to write a letter to the author.Mr. Griot reviews the important parts of a letter and then demonstrates how he used them in his letter.
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Loved Your Story!
Mr. Griot rereads a favorite story and decides to write a letter to the author.He teaches about the five important parts of a letter.Then, Mr. Griot models how to write a letter as he writes his own letter to an author.
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Planning the second section of an information text about an author
Pupil outcome: I can create a plan to support me when writing a section of an information text about an author. Key learning points: - The subheading ‘Jobs and books’ tells the reader what the section will be about. - The plan should...
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Planning the first section of an information text about an author
Pupil outcome: I can create a plan to support me when writing a section of an information text about an author. Key learning points: - The subheading ‘Childhood and inspiration’ tells the reader what the section will be about. - The plan...
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Anonymous Authors Of Love Letters Uplift The Lonely
While it is exciting to see the bold type of a newly arrived email from an old friend or the pulsing dots of a long awaited text, there is still something special about the arrival of a hand written, stamped envelope in your home...
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Why Kids Write Their Letters Backwards
Humans have been on Earth for around 200,000 years but have only used symbols as a form of communication for a fraction of that time. Because of this, Mariano Sigman, author of "The Secret Life of The Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Carl Hooker - Teachers Make a Difference - Ray Hooker
Carl has been an educator for the past 21 years. He has held a variety of positions in both multiple districts, from 1st grade teacher to Virtualization Coordinator. He’s a father of three girls, Sophia, Lauren, and Caroline and a...
Big Think
Yann Martel: ‘Transgression is central to art’ | Big Think
Transgression is central to art New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Man Booker...
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Salman Rushdie: ‘Write for readers, not for critics’ | Big Think
Salman Rushdie: ‘Write for readers, not for critics’ New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge...
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Writing the introduction of a persuasive letter, using inspiration from a text
Pupil outcome: I can use a plan to write the introduction of a persuasive letter, using inspiration from a text. Key learning points: - An introductory sentence indicates what the paragraph will be about. - Flattery and presumption are...
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James Patterson on writing: Plotting, research, and first drafts
- James Patterson has sold 300 million copies of his 130 books, making him one of the most successful authors alive today. - He talks about how some writers can overdo it by adding too much research, or worse, straying from their outline...
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Planning the introduction of a persuasive letter, using inspiration from a text
Pupil outcome: I can plan the introduction of a persuasive letter, using inspiration from the text ‘Front Desk’. Key learning points: - The introduction must clearly communicate why the author is writing to the recipient. - This...
Epic Reads
Epic Author Facts: Jasmine Warga | Here We Are Now
Get to know Jasmine Warga, author of Here We Are Now, and hear where her love for music has gotten her, who she met through a Sailor Moon chatroom, and more! Subscribe to Epic Reads! - http://goo.gl/2vD4rM Start reading an exclusive...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Deming - 'Ode to Paxil'
Richard Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman, 2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Deming - Teachers Make a Difference - Robert Creeley
Richard Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman, 2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber...
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Mark Twain: The First Truly American Writer
Samuel Langhorne Clements was born in 1835 in Florida, Missouri. By the time of his death in 1910, he was known around the world as Mark Twain, “the first truly American writer” and the country’s greatest humorist. In his lifetime, he...
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John Eliot Gardiner: Bach's Habit of Imperfection
Gardiner, author of the new book, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, has a unique perspective on Bach (http://goo.gl/J7gH2K). He is both a historian and a world-renowned conductor who has throughout his career made hundreds of...
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Black Girl Geek Magic – She’s Blazing The Trail For All Like Her
Her family’s love of good stories, whether they were comics, anime, video games or even the Harry Potter Books, were all a key part of shaping the “geek” in Jamila Rowser’s personality while traveling the world as a military brat with...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Deming - 'Why I Left Vienna'
Richard Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman, 2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Deming - 'Film Threat'
Richard Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman, 2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber...
Laura Candler
ABC’s of Me!
Young authors share all about themselves with this printable autobiography resource. Including 26 different sentence frames, one focusing on each letter of the alphabet, students write about everything from an adventure they...
Townsend Press
Argument
Form well-crafted arguments with the help of an educational video. Fourth graders study various examples of persuasive arguments, including thesis statements and cartoons, and observe the ways that supporting details can enhance the...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Janet Wong
When Wong left her job as Director of Labor Relations at Universal Studios in Hollywood, she dreamed of becoming a children's book author. Over the next two years, she took a writing class, submitted manuscripts, and piled up more than...