Instructional Video
Yossarian the Grammarian

Yossarian the Grammarian: How to Punctuate Email Greetings

9th - 10th Standards
In the video lesson, Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to punctuate email greetings.
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Describing Style

9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on describing an author's style. It explains the five main elements constituting style: syntax, diction, punctuation, sensory details, and literary/rhetorical devices. It lists nine common writing styles and gives...
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Identifying Tone

9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on how to identify the tone of a passage. It defines tone, explains how to identify positive, negative, and neutral tones, and demonstrates how to identify tone with both a literary and a non-fiction example. [5:14]
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: The Author's Voice

9th - 10th Standards
Notes introducing author's voice and identifying specific techniques authors use to express their voice. Students can either read or listen to the notes. W.11-12.1d Tone/Style
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Maintain a Formal Writing Style

6th Standards
Writers adjust the style of their writing to make it appropriate for a particular audience. Here students practice writing in a formal style by using language that is appropriate for an academic audience. [6:53]
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sound Devices

6th - 8th Standards
A slideshow introducing sound related literary devices.
Instructional Video
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Top 10 Essay Writing Dont's

3rd - 8th Standards
This animation features the concept of essay writing and makes recommendations of do's and don'ts to improve the quality of the writing. 3:37sec.