Writing

Writing for Formal & Informal Purposes (2006)

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This program suggests strategies to help discern the appropriate tone for a piece of writing based on purpose and audience. Student writers, ranging from an avid cyclist on a fundraising campaign for an upcoming school trip to a writer communicating with her fellow club members on the Internet, use formal and informal writing to accomplish their task.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

High

Length:

00:23

Writing Effective Paragraphs (2006)

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Writers, ranging from a sportswriter for a school newspaper to a student working on a research project, demonstrate the processes of developing a focused thesis statement as well as structuring and writing solid introductory, supporting and concluding paragraphs.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

High

Length:

00:23

Writing Expository Essays (2006)

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Presents the basics of expository writing, from composing the introduction and the thesis statement to assembling body paragraphs to writing an effective conclusion.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

High

Length:

00:23

Avoiding Plagiarism (2004)

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Throughout their lives, successful people use information to make decisions, solve problems and communicate more effectively. Based on information literacy standards, this series helps students learn to navigate our complex, information-rich world through the development of critical research skills and the ability to access, evaluate and use information.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

00:23

Descriptive Words & Phrases (2003, 2004)

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Choosing stories for the next issue of their magazine, the Wordswork staff decides to focus on words that tell us more about other words.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:23

Punctuation (2003, 2004)

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The Wordswork staff is on a mission to tackle those tiny symbols that help make our writing more clear: punctuation! The team digs through the writing samples submitted to their literary magazine to uncover the rules of punctuation.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:23

Sentences (2003, 2004)

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The Wordswork staff is on a quest to fill their magazine with those groups of words we all know and love: sentences. Their job sounds simple enough, but little do they know that a sentence isn't just any old group of words. To be considered a sentence, those words must convey a complete thought and contain both a subject and a predicate.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:23

Verbs (2003, 2004)

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The Wordswork staff decides on an action theme as they prepare the latest issue of their literary magazine, and that can mean only one special group of words: verbs.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:23

Nouns (2003, 2004)

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'People, places and things' emerge as our young editors' theme for the next issue of their literary magazine, launching them on a mission to identify and learn all about nouns. In Nouns, young viewers will enjoy following along with the Wordswork team as they discover that nouns can be common or proper, singular or plural.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:23

Eight Parts of Speech (2002)

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Students understand that learning the eight parts of speech helps people to know the function of words, and how they are joined together to make coherent sentences. They will be introduced to the noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection. They will also realize that depending on its use the same word can represent a different part of speech.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Length:

00:15

Writing

Writing for Formal & Informal Purposes (2006)

Writing Effective Paragraphs (2006)

Writing Expository Essays (2006)

Avoiding Plagiarism (2004)

Descriptive Words & Phrases (2003, 2004)

Punctuation (2003, 2004)

Sentences (2003, 2004)

Verbs (2003, 2004)

Nouns (2003, 2004)

Eight Parts of Speech (2002)

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