Teaching Without Frills
Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 3: Making a Plan
In this video, you will learn how to make a plan for your informational writing. You can think about the structure of your book and the subtopics you will include. This will help you organize your ideas before writing!
Teaching Without Frills
Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 7: Making a Table of Contents
In this video, you will learn how to make a table of contents for your own informational writing book.
Teaching Without Frills
Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 1: What Is It?
In this series, learn how to write your own informational book! In this video, you will learn about the features of informational writing.
Teaching Without Frills
Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 8: Making a Glossary
In this video, you will learn how to make a glossary for your informational writing book. We will discuss how to choose important key words and provide short definitions.
Teaching Without Frills
Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 6: Writing a Closing
In this video, you will learn how to write a closing or conclusion for your informational writing. We will discuss different types of closing strategies, such as summarizing the main points and providing a next step for the reader.
Teaching Without Frills
Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 5: Writing a Draft
In this video, you will learn how to write a first draft of your informational book. We will discuss how to use headings to organize the facts that go together. We will also draw and label pictures that help to teach the reader more...
Teaching Without Frills
How to Write for Your Audience - Writing Video For Kids
This video will help you learn how to write for your audience in narrative, informational, and persuasive writing. You'll learn about writing style, formal and informal word choice, and tone.
Teaching Without Frills
Informational Writing for Kids- Episode 4: Writing an Introduction
In this video, you will learn how to write an introduction for your informational book. We will discuss strategies to hook the reader and introduce your topic.
Brian McLogan
Master how to write the equation of a circle given different pieces of information
Master how to write the equation of a circle given different pieces of information
KERA
Debate: Does Technology Help or Hurt Writing Skills?
Middle and high school students can spend a lot of time on their phones. Teens use technology to communicate and share information and a new study by the Pew Research Center finds this is helping teens be more creative and collaborative....
Curated Video
Formal vs. Informal Emails
Howcast - Learn the etiquette rules regarding formal vs. informal emails from manners expert Faye de Muyshondt in this Howcast video.
NUMBEROCK
Writing and Interpreting Numerical Expressions Song for 5th Grade
Writing and Interpreting Numerical Expressions Song Grades: 5th Grade - 6th Grade »»-------------¤-------------««»»-------------¤-------------«« Are you interested in learning about reading, writing, and interpreting numerical...
Planet PE
The Best Ways to Revise
In this video we discuss how to revise for exams - 7 study tips supported by science. See all the tips broken out below and check out the video to understand how they relate to the active recall method of learning: 1. Do a practice test...
Crash Course
Who Can You Trust? Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #4
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...
Curated Video
Read All about It
Mr. Griot shares an example of an informational newspaper article to teach the important characteristics of informational writing.
TED Talks
TED: How to write less but say more | Jim VandeHei
As the saying goes, less is more. The same goes for words. Listen as Politico and Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei shares what he's learned leading two media companies -- and how to radically rethink the way you write to keep people's...
Teaching Without Frills
Informational Writing for Kids - Episode 2: Brainstorming & Choosing a Topic
In this video, you will learn how to brainstorm and then choose the best topic by thinking about the following questions: "What do I know a lot about?" "Who is my audience?" "What am I interested in?"
Teaching Without Frills
How to Write a Research Paper for Kids Episode 1: Brainstorming Topics
This video series will teach you how to write a research paper or report. Each episode leads you through each step of the writing process. In this video, you will learn how to brainstorm research topic ideas!
Teaching Without Frills
How to Create an Outline for Kids - Planning Your Writing
In this video, you'll learn how to create an outline to plan your writing! We'll use a persuasive writing topic as an example to see how an outline can help you organize your ideas before writing.
Teaching Without Frills
How to Write a Research Paper for Kids - Episode 3: Researching
In this video, you will learn how to start researching a topic after you make a plan for your animal research paper. We will check to make sure the facts we already knew are really true. Then we'll learn even more information in books,...
Teaching Without Frills
How to Write a Research Paper for Kids - Episode 5: Revising
In this video, you will learn how to revise your research paper to improve your writing. We will add, change, or remove parts to make our writing even better!
Curated Video
Using Each Sentence to Provide New Information in Your Writing
In this video, the teacher explains how writers use each sentence to provide new information to their readers. They use the example of writing about sharks to illustrate the concept of paragraphs and grouping related information. The...
Curated Video
How to Start an Essay: Add Background Information to Write a Strong Introduction
In this video, I will walk you through how to start your essay with an effective introduction paragraph. Personally, I feel like many do not address this issue and it results in many poorly written essays. I want to teach you how to...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jane Chikapa - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Malawi
Jane Chikapa is a top fifty Global Teacher Prize finalist. Jane teaches English in a secondary school located on the edge of Lake Malawi – an area where many people value working in the fishing business over the pursuit of education....