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The Royal Order of Adjectives: Enhancing Your Writing with Descriptions
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using adjectives in writing to create vivid descriptions. They discuss the Royal Order of Adjectives, which guides the order in which adjectives should be used before a noun. The...
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How to Hook Your Reader with a Provocative Question
In this lesson you will learn how to draft a strong opening paragraph by using a provocative question.
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Crafting a Strong Opening Paragraph: Making a Brave Statement
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of writing a strong opening paragraph to engage readers. They discuss three common ways to draft an opening paragraph - telling a story, asking an interesting question, or making a brave...
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Adding Positives to Clarify Meaning and Add Interest
In this video, the teacher explains how writers use appositives to clarify meaning and add interest in their writing. The teacher provides examples and guides students through practice exercises to identify and rewrite sentences with...
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Adding Specific Words and Phrases to Make Your Writing Come Alive
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using precise words and phrases in writing to create vivid mental images for readers. The teacher guides students through examples and practice exercises to help them understand the...
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Identifying and Fixing Sentence Fragments
In this video, the teacher explains the concept of sentence fragments and how to identify and fix them in writing. The video provides examples and offers strategies for revising fragments by adding missing information. It also includes...
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Organizing Your Ideas with Boxes and Bullets: Planning Your Opinion Letter
In this video, the teacher explains how to organize ideas for writing a strong opinion letter using a boxes and bullets format. The three steps are outlined: writing the reason in a box, identifying examples that support the reason, and...
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Correct Usage of Who and Whom in Questions
In this video, the teacher explains the correct usage of the relative pronouns who and whom. They provide examples and guide the students through practice exercises to help them understand when to use each pronoun correctly. The teacher...
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Removing Empty Words: Writing with Conciseness and Precision
This video is a writing lesson that teaches students how to remove empty words like "this," "that," and "there" from their writing to make it more concise and precise. The teacher provides examples and guides students through the process...
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Organizing Text with Headings
The teacher explains how writers organize informational text by grouping related paragraphs under appropriate headings. The students are given practice sheets and guided through exercises to identify headings for paragraphs and divide a...
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Adding Modifiers to Noun Phrases for Descriptive Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the concept of noun phrases and how writers use them to make their writing more descriptive and specific. The teacher provides examples and practice exercises for adding modifiers to nouns to create...
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Using Descriptive Adjectives to Enhance Your Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using descriptive adjectives in writing to make it more interesting and engaging for the readers. The teacher provides examples and exercises for the students to practice using...
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Using Relevant Evidence in Argumentative Writing
In this video, the teacher guides students through the process of ensuring that their evidence is relevant to their reasons in argumentative writing. They review the difference between a claim, a reason, and evidence, and practice...
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Great Authors: E.B. White
This video is a lesson about the life and works of EB White, a renowned children's book author. The teacher discusses White's background, his major children's books (Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan), and the...
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Revising Your Persuasive Speech: Connecting Evidence to Your Thesis Statement
In this video, the teacher explains how to ensure that the evidence in a persuasive speech connects to the thesis statement. The teacher outlines three steps: rereading with a purpose, checking if the speech is going off track, and...
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Perfect Tense: Showing Time Relationships in Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the concept of perfect tense and how it is used to show time relationships in writing. The teacher provides examples and a timeline to help students understand the different forms of perfect tense. The...
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Understanding Adjectives
In this video, students will learn about adjectives and how they are used to describe nouns in sentences. The video explains the function of adjectives in providing more clarity and visualization to readers. Students will also practice...
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Using Correlative Conjunctions in Writing
This video is a lesson on how to use correlative conjunctions correctly in sentences. It explains what correlative conjunctions are, provides examples, and guides students through exercises to practice using them. The video also...
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Using Gerund Phrases to Add Precision in Writing
In this video, the teacher explains how writers can use gerund phrases to make their writing more precise. The teacher provides examples and guides students through practice exercises to underline gerund phrases in sentences and revise...
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Fixing Comma Splices: Improving Sentence Structure in Writing
This video is a lesson on identifying and correcting comma splices, a type of run-on sentence. The teacher explains what comma splices are and provides three ways to fix them: changing the comma to a period, adding a coordinating or...
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Supporting Opinions with Facts and Examples
In this video, the teacher explains how writers support their opinions with reasons and information. They emphasize the importance of using facts as examples to make reasons clearer and more valid. The teacher provides examples and...
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Writing an Opinion Statement in an Introduction
In this video, the teacher guides students through the process of writing an opinion statement in the introduction of a text. They explain the difference between facts and opinions and provide examples for students to practice...
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Using Participial Phrases to Add Detail and Variety to Your Writing
In this video, the teacher explains how writers use participial phrases to add detail and vary their sentence structure. The students are guided through examples and practice exercises to identify and create participial phrases that...
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Using Commas with Opening Interjections
This video is a lesson on using commas after opening interjections. The teacher explains what an interjection is and how it is used in a sentence. The students are given practice exercises to identify and correct sentences with missing...