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Crafting Specific Opinions: Avoiding Broad Statements
In this video, the teacher discusses the importance of crafting opinions that are not too broad for a given topic. They guide students through the process of identifying broad opinions, brainstorming specific details, and revising their...
Curated Video
Adding Purpose to Your Opinion Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of adding a purpose to opinion writing. They differentiate between facts and opinions and emphasize the need for opinions to be supported and have relevance to others. The teacher...
Curated Video
Using Facts and Opinions in Opinion Writing
This video is a helpful guide for students on how to effectively incorporate opinions and facts in their opinion writing. It explains the difference between opinions and facts, provides examples, and encourages students to strengthen...
Curated Video
Nonfiction Expository Writing: Tigers
Mr. Griot describes how to write a nonfiction expository writing essay.
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Nailing Non-Fiction - Finer Details of Analysing Non-fiction Texts (Stage 4, Years/Grades 7-8)
Our second lesson tackles the finer details in written, verbal and visual non-fiction texts. Discover how non-fiction texts like news articles, speeches and documentaries use a variety of techniques to inform and persuade their...
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Writing Strong Introductions: Making Your Topic and Purpose Clear
In this video, the teacher guides students through the process of writing an effective introduction for an opinion text. They explain the three main parts of an introduction and provide examples to help students understand how to...
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Crafting a Memorable Closing: Telling a Story to Support Your Opinion
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of a memorable closing in a letter and provides three possible ways to end a letter: using a plea for action, telling a story that supports your opinion, or stating why your thinking...
Curated Video
KS2 Primary English Age 9-13 - Writing: Making Your Non-Fiction Writing Successful - Explained
SchoolOnline's Primary English videos are brilliant, bite-size tutorial videos delivered by examiners and skilled teachers. Ideal for ages 9-13, they cover every key skill in English Reading and Writing that students need to master in...
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...
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3 Strategies to Become a Wonderfully Winning IELTS Writer
Today you learn about 3 strategies that will turn you into a high-scoring IELTS writer! Students often ask, “How do I improve my writing?” Or, also often, IELTS teachers hear, “How do I come up with ideas for my essays?” Good news! If...
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Adding Strong Evidence to Support Arguments
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using strong and relevant evidence to support reasons in argumentative writing. The teacher provides examples and prompts for students to practice adding evidence to their writing....
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Analysing effective opinion articles
Pupil outcome: I can identify the features of effective opinion writing. Key learning points: - The form of a piece is the kind of writing it is. - The form of a piece informs the tone you use. - Opinion writing requires a strong sense...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Kara Alaimo - Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls
Kara Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University and the author of Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls and How We Can Take It Back. She has written opinion and analysis pieces...
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6 Ways to Use 1 News Article- Increase IELTS Scores Quickly
Did you know you can increase all of your IELTS scores using only 1 news article? Here’s how! 1. Read the news article for overall comprehension. Don’t stop to look up vocabulary. 2. Write a short summary of the article in your own...
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Who Gets the Best Answers? The Wisdom of Crowds
There aren't many books I recommend unreservedly to professional and business people I work with. But the Wisdom of Crowds is one of them. So, Who does Get the Best Answers? It turns out it isn't anyone. It's certainly not the expert....
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Identify Persuasive Texts
“Identify Persuasive Texts” identifies the characteristics of a persuasive writing piece.
Crash Course
Who Can You Trust? Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #4
In which John Green teaches you how to assess the sources of information you find on the internet. The growing suspicion of expertise is a growing problem on the internet, and it can be very difficult to figure out which sources are...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Nailing Non-fiction - 'Big Picture' Questions in Non-fiction Texts (Stage 5, Years/Grades 9-10)
Welcome back to Nailing Non-Fiction! Join us for a fun but rigorous lesson on the different text types that comprise the genre of Non-Fiction. We’ll discuss informative and persuasive texts and how composers use language to achieve their...
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The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts
And so far, it isn't giving them back. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Some of the world’s greatest cultural and historical treasures are housed in London’s British Museum, and a significant number of them were taken...
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How do we fix the zoo?
Do the benefits of zoos justify the fact that some animals are clearly stressed out? Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Many of us have fond memories of visiting the zoo as a child...
Curated OER
Optimization with Calculus 3
Using what one learned about finding the minimum and maximum of functions, the optimization problem to find two numbers whose product is -16 and whose sum of squares is a minimum is solved. Sal starts by writing the equations and...
The Brain Scoop
Where'd You Get All Those Dead Animals?
Why do zoologists collect animal specimens for research? And, how many animals is enough? Explore both sides of a current debate in the scientific community using a video that is part of a larger playlist on mammals. Topics include...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Evaluate Your Writing by Rereading and Comparing It to Assignment
In this lesson, you will learn how to evaluate your piece's completion by deciding if it meets all the directions in the prompt. [7:37]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Introduce an Opinion in a Persuasive Letter
In this lesson, you will learn how to clearly introduce a point of view in a persuasive letter by organizing different pieces of information into an introduction. Login gives access to a slideshow as well. [5:19]