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Curated Video
Author’s Purpose
Author’s Purpose determines the importance of writing for purpose by reading passages and identifying the author’s purpose for writing.
Curated Video
Identifying the features of an information text to prepare for writing our own
Pupil outcome: I can identify features of an information text through exploring a model text about the author Atinuke. Key learning points: - Information texts are a form of non-fiction writing that provide information about someone or...
Curated Video
Intended Audience
Intended Audience explores the importance of keeping the intended audience in mind when writing by identifying types of audiences.
American Museum of Natural History
Slow Loris Conservation in Vietnam
Little is known about the status or ecology of slow lorises in Vietnam, but researchers do know that the animals’ numbers are on the decline. The nocturnal primates often show up in local, regional, and international trade as pets and...
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Kew Gardens: Exploring the Unknown Amazon
Following Kew’s botanical work on an expedition (organised by CNRS and the French Foreign Legion) along the French Guiana-Brazil border, this short film examines how modern techniques and equipment, coupled with old-fashioned...
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
William Milliken: Modern day plant hunter
Following Kew’s botanical work on an expedition (organised by CNRS and the French Foreign Legion) along the French Guiana-Brazil border, this short film examines how modern techniques and equipment, coupled with old-fashioned...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Andy Hargreaves - Uplifting Leadership
What does it take to do more with less? How can you do better than before, or better than others? How do you turn losses into wins, or near-bankruptcy into strong profitability, or abject failure into stellar...
Global Ethics Solutions
Your Responsibility for Confidential and Intellectual Property (Part 2)
This presentation helps employees understand their responsibility for protecting confidential information and intellectual property. It covers the various kinds of intellectual property, common copyright exceptions and limitations, and...
Global Ethics Solutions
Your Responsibility for Confidential and Intellectual Property
This presentation helps employees understand their responsibility for protecting confidential information and intellectual property. It covers the various kinds of intellectual property, common copyright exceptions and limitations, and...
Curated OER
Theme
Identifying the theme of a piece is crucial to understanding. Using the play Romeo and Juliet as an example, the concept of theme is explored in a video of a classroom lecture.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify Author's Purpose: Analyze How Multiple Themes Interact
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify an author's purpose by analyzing how multiple themes interact throughout a text. [7:01]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify the Purpose of an Argumentative Essay
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify the purpose of an essay by using the action verbs and the subject in a prompt. Login gives access to a slideshow and a second video. [5:08]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine Author's Purpose Using Text Evidence
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the author's purpose by asking, "Why did the author write this?" and using text evidence to prove his purpose. [10:04]
Other
You Tube: Identify Purpose and Audience
This video [1:25] focuses on identifying an audience to write based on the purpose for writing.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Explain How an Author Uses Rhythm to Express Point of View
In this lesson, you will learn how the author uses rhythm to express point of view by identifying the rhythm of a poem and determining what the author is trying to tell the reader through the rhythm. Login gives access to a slideshow and...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Video: Identifying and Interpreting Timing and Pacing in a Poem
In this lesson, you will learn how pacing impacts the meaning of a poem by reading aloud and considering author's purpose. [4:46]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Make Connections Between the Text and an Illustration
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify where an illustration reflects specific descriptions in the text by examining illustrations and asking_ How did this author use the illustration? Login gives access to a slideshow and a...