Instructional Video
New Zealand Ministry of Education

Te Kete Ipurangi: Thinking and Reading Comprehension

Pre-K - 1st Standards
Julie Cowan from Willowbank School explains how she supports students to become strategic, reflective, and metacognitive readers and thinkers.
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Conclusions

6th - 8th Standards
This video lesson focuses on writing strong conclusions through strategies such as restating your thesis, summarizing your support, and calling the reader to action. It also discusses things a writer should avoid doing. [4:15]
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Thesis Statements

9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces how to write a thesis statement. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast [04:45] with the lesson's content.
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Draft a Concluding Paragraph for an Argumentative Essay

8th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to draft a concluding paragraph for your essay by summarizing your argument, identifying a solution, and stating the consequence of inaction. [4:48]
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Draft Body Paragraphs for an Argumentative Essay

8th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to draft body paragraphs by introducing and explaining your evidence while using transitions between sentences and paragraphs. [4:53]
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Narratives

9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial uses text and audio to introduce narrative writing. [2:03]
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Process Analysis Papers

9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces process papers.
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revising a Conclusion

9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses improve a conclusion through revision. [18:45]
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.
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Process Papers: Key Elements: Lesson 1

9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over words, phrases, and key elements that are included in process papers. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Process Papers: Key Elements."