PBS
Career Connections | Public Relations Specialist
Imagine promoting various products—developing ad campaigns that create the buzz needed to attract customers for these products. Such is the job of public relations specialists. Find out what is involved by viewing a short video about...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Organizing Your Paper
This tutorial focuses on organizing a paper. It provides three videos: the first video covers graphic organizers and how each is best used; the second one discusses the purpose, audience, and context of the writing and offers 5 methods...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Organization
This lesson focuses on the organization of argumentative papers. It discusses the purpose of argumentative papers and the required parts; then it provides the basic organizational pattern for the paper: introduction with a hook for the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Clarity
A video lesson explaining the importance of clarity in effective writing and showing some examples of how to make writing more clear. [9:45] W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.c and CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.4
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Create a Clear and Coherent Thesis
In this lesson, you will learn how to create a clear and coherent thesis statement by analyzing the task and reviewing the text. [7:00]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Connect Ideas in Informational Writing
In this lesson, students practice revising a draft about invasive species with a focus on using transitions to connect ideas across and within paragraphs. A video models the thought process writers use to apply the targeted skill and...
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Write to Top: Cohesion and Coherence
This video explains what cohesion and coherence are. The instructor explains ways to incorporate cohesion into essays. [22:46]
PBS
Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Entering Information Accurately in Construction
In the construction industry, forms are often used to keep track of orders, supplies and inventory, and maintenance records.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify the Purpose of an Opinion Essay
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify the purpose of an essay by using the action verbs and the subject in a prompt. Login gives access to a slideshow and a second video. [5:08]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Video: Connect Ideas Using Transition Words, Phrases, and Clauses
In this lesson, you will learn how to connect ideas in a text by using example, addition, contrast, and concession transitions. [5:50]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Clarity: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses the goal of clarity in writing. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Clarity." W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion
Other
Teaching Without Frills: Informational Writing for Kids: Writing a Draft
Start organizing and writing facts for an informational piece. Use headings to organize all of the facts that go together, and draw and label pictures that go with each section. [2:20]