Curated Video
Develop Writing
A video titled "Develop Writing" that explains steps and strategies of the prewriting process.
Curated Video
The Kelsey’s Vacation
Mr. Griot explains how to write a short story and include all of the narrative elements, like setting, character, plot, conflict, climax, and resolution.
Curated Video
Let’s Make It Better!
Mr. Griot models using a rubric and proofreading checklist to revise and edit a story.
Curated Video
Prewriting
Prewriting explores the important elements of the prewriting step of the writing process.
Curated Video
Drafting
Drafting explores the important elements of the drafting step of the writing process.
Curated Video
The Amazing Writing Process
“The Amazing Writing Process” is a video that provides an overview of the five steps of the writing process. The five steps include prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
Curated Video
Finalizing Writing
A video entitled “Finalizing Writing” which explores three steps of the writing process: revising, editing, and publishing.
Curated Video
Theme Development
A video entitled “Theme Development” which explores specific examples of how the theme of a personal narrative can be indirectly conveyed.
Teaching Without Frills
Writing a Personal Narrative for Kids - Episode 2: Making a Plan
In this video, you will learn how to make a plan for your personal narrative story. We will use a graphic organizer to organize our ideas.
Curated OER
Color My Day
Use this video to get children thinking about a series of events that can be turned into a picture story. They can view a little girl using art to tell the story of her day in the park.
Crash Course
Papers and Essays: Crash Course Study Skills #9
Your research paper is due tomorrow, and you're staring at the dreaded blank screen. How can you avoid this problem next time? Watch a short, informative video on writing papers and essays to review the importance of the writing process...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prewriting: Asking Questions
This video lesson focuses on asking questions as a prewriting activity. It explains why questioning is a good prewriting technique, discusses the types of questions to ask, focuses the questions to fit the topic, and provides a specific...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prewriting: Brainstorming
This video lesson focuses on brainstorming and listing as a prewriting activity. It discusses free association of ideas and perspectives, using webs or flow charts of ideas, and a variety of listing methods. Next students should look at...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prewriting: Free Writing
This video lesson focuses on using free writing as a prewriting strategy. It defines free writing, fast continuous writing for an allotted period of time; it explains the benefits of free writing and details how to use it as a prewriting...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prewriting: Free Writing
This video lesson focuses on using stream of consciousness free writing as a prewriting activity. It discusses the purpose for prewriting and the rules for stream of consciousness writing. It then offers practice in the form of a...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Planning a Narrative Response to a Prompt
In this lesson, you will plan your writing by using boxes and bullets to organize each part of your narrative. [4:04]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Develop Sub-Points to Support a Thesis Statement
In this lesson, you will learn how to write the sub-points for your thesis statement by turning the argument into a why question. [3:26]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Comparison Papers
This lesson introduces the comparison and contrast writing, a type of informative writing. [11:46]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prewriting
A video lesson defining the prewriting step in the writing process and explaining why it is an important step. [6:08]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Brainstorm Topics for an Argumentative Opinion Essay by Thinking About Issues
In this lesson, you will learn how to brainstorm opinion topics by considering issues in the world that you think about a lot. [4:55]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Organize Pre Writing to Answer a Persuasive Writing Prompt
In this lesson, you will learn how to organize your pre-writing to answer the prompt by using a short plan. [4:34]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Plan a Narrative by Constructing an Outline
In this lesson, you will learn how to plan your narrative by constructing an outline. Login gives access to a slideshow as well. [7:19]
Crash Course
Crash Course Study Skills #9: Papers and Essays
Writing research papers is an essential skill in your career as a student, and this week we're going to help you do that like a pro. From figuring out where to begin to finding the best systems, to breaking out of "research recursion...