In this video, the teacher explains how to make an essay flow by connecting examples, facts, and reasons to the thesis statement. They emphasize the importance of each body paragraph supporting a separate reason and provide prompts to...

In this video, the teacher explains the difference between fact and opinion and guides students in revising their opinion statements to focus on the topic rather than themselves. The teacher provides examples and encourages critical...

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...

Using The First Step, Miss Palomine talks about what statements are facts and what statements are not facts, and how we tell the difference.

We're off to fact-checking school. This time, John Green is teaching you how to fact-check like the pros. We're going to walk through the steps that professionals follow, including figuring out who is behind the information we read, why...

Today, in our series finale, we're going to talk about the great white whale of navigating online information: your social media feed. Social media shapes both our online and offline behaviors from how we engage in communities and...

How do you read case law to understand the implication of the court's decision.

In this video, the teacher guides students on how to organize their ideas in opinion writing. They discuss the structure of paragraphs, with a focus on the introduction, body, and conclusion. The teacher provides a draft essay on food...

With the advent of the Internet and social media, news is distributed at an incredible rate by an unprecedented number of different media outlets. How do we choose which news to consume? Damon Brown gives the inside scoop on how the...

Learn how to answer IELTS reading true/false/not given and yes/no/not given questions for your IELTS reading exam.

During the IELTS reading test, you will have to answer T/F/NG and Y/N/NG...

This video looks at the documents conceived in a period when the civil rights of women and Native Americans were in question, and slavery was driving a wedge between slaveholders and abolitionists. Educators from noted American...

A hook is a sentence or group of sentences that will capture or “hook” your reader’s interest and lure him or her to keep reading. The hook, also called the lead, will set the tone and mood for your essay and establish A hook can be a...

In which John Green teaches you how to assess the sources of information you find on the internet. The growing suspicion of expertise is a growing problem on the internet, and it can be very difficult to figure out which sources are...

SchoolOnline's Primary English videos are brilliant, bite-size tutorial videos delivered by examiners and skilled teachers. Ideal for ages 9-13, they cover every key skill in English Reading and Writing that students need to master in...

Ashley Poston, the author of one of our fave new books—Heart of Iron—has some opinions she needs you to know. Like, what’s the best anime she’s currently watching? And when it comes to Hogwarts houses, does the end justify the means?...

SchoolOnline's Primary English videos are brilliant, bite-size tutorial videos delivered by examiners and skilled teachers. Ideal for ages 9-13, they cover every key skill in English Reading and Writing that students need to master in...

SchoolOnline's Primary English videos are brilliant, bite-size tutorial videos delivered by examiners and skilled teachers. Ideal for ages 9-13, they cover every key skill in English Reading and Writing that students need to master in...

In this video a lawyer discusses the challenges and risks of giving expert advice in business. She emphasizes the importance of focusing on a few areas of expertise, seeking expert advice when necessary, and relying on referrals from...

Trust is eroding, in part, due to the over-abundance of opinion-based content; we must all develop better tools and habits for consuming information to regain a shared understanding of what is true. RESOURCES ************** RAND...

Opinion is more compelling than fact. That's tearing society apart. - Basic facts are up for debate, especially in the realm of science and politics. So which facts can you trust? Start by looking at trusted sources like Wikipedia,...

If you want someone to see an issue rationally, you just show them the facts, right? No one can refute a fact. Well, brain imaging and psychological studies are showing that, society wide, we may be on the wrong path by holding evidence...

Through this video, the Vietnam War has been analyzed from an economic perspective. Whether we're talking about the costs of the Vietnam war, the economic effects of the Vietnam War or the "economics vs. politics" equation associated...

A record 65.6 million people worldwide had been forced from their homes due to conflict or persecution by the end of 2016. Here is a two minute video with facts about refugees ahead of World Refugee Day on Tuesday. At the Thomson Reuters...

Maybe there is a right or wrong, a good or evil? But maybe there isn’t. Maybe all there is, is a matter of perspective. To gift a video or if you want Sprouts to make such videos support us viahref='http://patreon.com/sprouts'...