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Organizing Ideas and Evidence in a Persuasive Essay: Using Paragraph Form
In this video, the teacher provides a step-by-step guide on how to make a persuasive essay easy to read and well-organized. The lesson covers the importance of stating a claim and providing evidence, as well as the three steps of 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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Organizing Ideas and Evidence in a Persuasive Essay
In this video, the teacher explains how to make a persuasive opinion essay easy to read by organizing ideas and evidence using paragraph form. The teacher emphasizes the importance of having clear topic sentences and provides examples of...
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Including Stories and Examples in Body Paragraphs
This video lesson teaches students how to add detail to their informational writing by incorporating stories and examples in their body paragraphs. It emphasizes the importance of being specific and including as many details as possible...
Curated Video
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 aligns with the thesis statement. The lesson covers the importance of strong thesis statements, the three stages of the writing process, and three...
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Concluding Your Persuasive Essay: Summarizing Key Points and Encouraging Action
In this video, the teacher guides students on how to make their persuasive essays memorable by focusing on the concluding paragraph. The teacher emphasizes the importance of including a clear ending and avoiding repetition. They provide...
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Reconsidering Paragraph Order in Persuasive Writing
This video is a lesson on how to decide the order of paragraphs in a persuasive speech. The teacher guides students through the process of generating ideas, writing drafts, and revising and editing their reasons. They emphasize the...
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Proving Your Point: Using Evidence to Support Your Thesis
In this video, the teacher explains how to prove a point using evidence. They emphasize the importance of having strong feelings about the topic in order to effectively prove one's thinking. The teacher also guides the students through...
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Improving Your Persuasive Opinion Essay: Reconsidering the Order of Evidence
In this video, the teacher discusses how to make a persuasive opinion essay more convincing by reorganizing the supporting evidence. They explain the importance of claims and provide examples, and also review the writing process of...
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How to Show Personal Growth in Your Writing
In this video, the teacher discusses the importance of revealing something about oneself in a personal narrative. They explain the writing process and guide students on how to revise their drafts to show personal growth and change.
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Creating a Memorable Conclusion for Your Persuasive Essay
In this video, the teacher explains how to make a persuasive essay memorable by focusing on the conclusion. The teacher guides the students through the revision and editing process, emphasizing the importance of a clear ending that...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Sonia Nieto - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Phillips & Dr. Carlin
Dr. Sonia Nieto has devoted her professional life to questions of diversity, equity, and social justice in education. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she began her teaching career in 1966 in an intermediate school in Brooklyn,...
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Linking Ideas in Your Persuasive Opinion Essay: Using Transition Words
In this video, the teacher explains how to improve the flow and coherence of a persuasive opinion essay by using transition words. The teacher reviews the writing process and the importance of revising to enhance the quality of writing....
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Mastering Homophones: Its vs. It's
In this video, the teacher guides students through a lesson on the correct usage of the homophones "its" and "it's." The lesson includes explanations of contractions, possessive pronouns, and examples of sentences using the homophones....
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Choosing a Writing Topic for an Informational Text
In this video, the teacher explains how to choose a writing topic for an informational text by asking questions about your interests. The importance of selecting non-fiction topics with factual resources is emphasized, and the three...
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TOPIC SENTENCE: The Best Ways to Begin a Body Paragraph (8 Steps for Beginners)
Struggling to write a topic sentence? Are you trying to figure out how to start your body paragraph?
In this video, I give you eight easy steps to writing both an advanced and basic topic sentence. First, I review THREE...
In this video, I give you eight easy steps to writing both an advanced and basic topic sentence. First, I review THREE...
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Creating a Memorable Conclusion for Your Persuasive Essay
In this video, the teacher provides guidance on how to make a persuasive essay memorable by concluding it effectively. The teacher explains the importance of having a focused ending and shares steps to achieve it, such as asking oneself...
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Adding Textual Features in Informational Writing
In this video, the teacher explains how to enhance readers' understanding in informational texts by adding textual features. They emphasize the importance of identifying areas of unclear information and thinking from the perspective of a...
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Using Abstract Nouns to Strengthen Your Writing
This video is a lesson for students on using abstract nouns in their writing. The teacher explains the difference between abstract and concrete nouns and provides examples. The students are then given practice identifying abstract nouns...
TED-Ed
The Science of Macaroni Salad: What's in a Molecule?
After showing they quick-paced featurette on the breaking of bonds, hold a discussion using the accompanying Think questions. Complex molecules are broken down into smaller molecules during digestion. There are six main molecules that...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revising a Thesis Statement
This video lesson focuses on revising and editing your paper, especially your thesis statement. It outlines a 3-step process in which the writer reads and answers specific questions about the body of the paper, then answers questions...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Goals of Revision
This lesson introduces the importance of revision in the writing process. [6:46] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.5; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen writing
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Revise a Narrative Story by Rereading the Draft
In this lesson, you will learn how to revise a narrative reading response by rereading and asking yourself, 'What details can I add to make my story stronger and are there any details I can remove?' Login gives access to a slideshow as...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revision Techniques: Peer Feedback
This video is an instructional writing lesson to teach students how to revise a paper based on another peer's feedback. The instructor provides three steps to follow after peer feedback is given. The instructor also provides additional...