Instructional Video5:00
Curated Video

Streamlining Your Research Notes: Deleting Repeated Information

K - 5th
In this video, the teacher explains how to simplify your notes before writing a research paper by deleting repeated information. The steps include reviewing your notes, identifying repeated information, deleting it, and combining similar...
Instructional Video9:19
Curated Video

Supporting an Opinion with Strong Reasons and Evidence

K - 5th
This video is a lesson on how to support an opinion with strong reasons by adding evidence, such as facts and details. It provides examples and guidance on how to make your reasons clear and based on facts, ultimately making your opinion...
Instructional Video4:19
Curated Video

Choosing a Topic for an Argumentative Essay: Exploring Issues that Affect Your Life

K - 5th
In this video, the teacher guides students on how to choose a topic for an argumentative essay. They emphasize the importance of selecting a topic that they have a lot to say about and that affects their lives. The teacher provides...
Instructional Video4:40
Curated Video

Creating Strong Endings: How to Leave the Audience with Strong Feelings

K - 5th
In this video lesson, the teacher guides students on how to create strong endings for their narratives by effectively conveying their emotions. The teacher explains the five steps of the writing process and provides a specific example of...
Instructional Video4:54
Curated Video

Revising Your Essay to Target Your Audience

K - 5th
This video provides a concise lesson on how to revise an argumentative essay to effectively target and convince the intended audience. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the audience and tailoring the essay accordingly, using...
Instructional Video11:02
Curated Video

Revise Your Opinion Statements for a Stronger Purpose

K - 5th
Writers revise their opinion to give it a strong purpose. Let's practice making sure our writing reflects that purpose when we revise an opinion statement.
Instructional Video10:42
Curated Video

Developing Lifelike Characters through Description

K - 5th
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using description to develop lifelike characters in writing. The teacher guides students through a practice activity where they circle words that describe a character in a picture....
Audio
PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Half Past Autumn

9th - 10th
Transcript of an interview with Gordon Parks in which he discusses his life, career, and works in a variety of art forms.
Audio
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Kerouac's "On the Road"

9th - 10th
The legend and the reality of the way Jack Kerouac wrote "On the Road," and eventually "Went to bed obscure and woke up famous."
Audio
Other

Ministere De La Culture

9th - 10th
Web site of the French Ministry of Culture features recordings of some of Malraux's speeches.
Audio
Other

Doris Lessing: Fresh Air

9th - 10th
Real Audio archive recording of Terry Gross interviewing the novelist Doris Lessing, May 31, 1988 on the subject of marriage.