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Learning to Fly: Setting
Learning to Fly: Setting describes the setting of a story as time and place, or when and where the story occurs.
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Bob Grows a Garden
This video tells the story of Bob Grows a Garden, written by William Parham.
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Author’s Style
Students will learn about different aspects that go into creating an author’s unique writing style.
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Prefixes and Suffixes
"Prefixes and Suffixes" explores how to determine the meanings of unfamiliar complex words by analyzing the words’ prefixes and suffixes.
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Metaphors and Similes
Metaphors and Similes explores metaphors and similes by interpreting literal and figurative meanings.
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Greek Roots
Greek Roots explores how to determine the meaning of unfamiliar complex words by using knowledge of Greek roots.
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Creating Meaning: Structure and Sound
This video will help students understand how poetry is organized and how the sound adds to the overall meaning of the written work.
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Independent and Dependent Clauses
The student will cover dependent and independent clauses and their functions within a sentence by reviewing definitions and looking at examples.
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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
The student will learn the basic rules for making comparative and superlative forms of adjectives.
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The True Meaning of a Word
The student will learn the difference between denotative and connotative meanings by exploring a variety of examples of both, in and out of sentences.
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Misplaced Modifiers
This video will cover modifiers and how best to identify them and rectify them within sentences where they are misplaced.
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Subject and Verb Agreement
The student will learn the rules for proper use of singular and plural subjects and verbs by looking at examples in sentences.
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Persuasive Writing
Persuasive Writing explains the concept of persuasive by citing the characteristics and describing the purpose of persuasive text.
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Dependent Clauses
Dependent Clauses identifies and defines various types of clauses by reading sentences that contain noun, relative, and adverbial clauses.
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Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
The student will learn about the different ways in which adverbs can be modified and practice using them in a sentence.
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Descriptive Language
This video explores the idea of descriptive language and how tone, mood, and imagery all work in conjunction to enhance any form of writing.
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Idioms and Puns
Explore idioms and puns by interpreting literal and figurative meanings.
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Figurative Language: Creating Meaning with Comparisons
This video will help students understand the critical role of comparative figurative language (metaphor, simile, and personification) in establishing theme in poetry.
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Organizing an Argument
“Organizing an Argument” will explain how to structure a valid, clear argument.
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Exploring Points of View
Exploring Points of View identifies and analyzes use of various points of view by describing first-person, third-person, third-person limited, and omniscient point of view.
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Persuasive Essay
This video illustrates the step-by-step process of writing a persuasive essay, including how to write a thesis statement, an introduction paragraph, body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.
Crash Course
History of Media Literacy Part 1: Crash Course Media Literacy #2
Even Plato understood the importance of media! Part of an ongoing series of media literacy videos, the resource takes viewers to where it all began ... ancient Greece. The video covers the emergence of media and the written word, the...
TED-Ed
How to Recognize a Dystopia
Viewers need not be fans of dystopian literature to be engaged by a short video that traces the development of the genre from Plato to the present. Gulliver's Travels, The Time Machine, The Iron Heel, Brave New World, Animal...
Camelea Publishing
Camelea: Like a Seagull
Hummingbirds and seagulls—how different and alike are the two birds? At her brother's birthday party, Camelea taps into her inner bird as she dances like a zippy hummingbird. But when it is time to sleep, she thinks of the calm seagull...