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...
British Council
Romeo and Juliet
An engaging video featuring William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is accompanied by six activities designed to reinforce vocabulary, story elements, and comprehension. Scholars match words to pictures, place events in sequential order,...
British Council
Twelfth Night
Scholars experience Shakespeare's, Twelfth Night, with an engaging interactive. After watching the story, six activities extend the learning experience. Topics include characters, vocabulary, a sequence of events, comprehension, and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Determining Your Audience
A series of four screencasts explaining the importance of audience. Students learn the difference between the real audience and the audience the writer intends, how to create a specific audience instead of a general audience, how the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: General and Specific Audiences
This video lesson focuses on analyzing your audience and tailoring your writing to it. It discusses the 4 types of audiences: real, intended, general, and specific; it explains how to choose writing styles such as tone, vocabulary, and...
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: Anticipating and Responding to Readers' Questions
This tutorial focuses on audiences and anticipating and responding to their questions using 2 videos. The first video focuses on determining, defining, and discussing real, intended, general, and specific audiences and also audience...
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
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language: Avoiding Redundancy
This screencast offers several methods to help readers spot and fix redundancy in their writing. She discusses why concise writing is important, and specific ways to edit for a more expressive, concise text. Includes short quiz. [3:32]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Audience and Writing Style
A screencast lesson defining different types of audience, discussing the importance of determining an audience, and explaining how a writing style should be chosen based on the needs and expectations of the intended audience.[5:18]...
Other
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]
ABCkidTV
You Tube: How to Write for Your Audience Writing Video for Kids
This video [4:04] 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.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Revise Argumentative Writing to Target a Specific Audience
In this lesson, you will learn how to revise your essay to target your audience by using the words, evidence, and ideas most likely to convince them. [4:54]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify the Different Parts of an Argumentative Essay
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify the different parts of an essay by labeling the thesis, topic sentence, supporting details and elaboration. [6:27]
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: Match the Body of a Paragraph to the Introduction
Writers use an introduction to organize the ideas that follow. Let's practice organizing the ideas within a paragraph according to the paragraph's introduction. [7:46]
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]