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Student Authors - Grade 1
The Being a Writer Program presents this video to help young students authors write a first draft!
Your Story Matters!
This "Being A Writer" video highlights the discussion on how to inspire student writing through books!
Writing in the 1st Grade
This video presents a delightful look at first graders excited about writing!
Student Authors in Grade 1
Watch and take notes as the "Being A Writer" program guides first graders through initial steps of writing a first draft!
Student Authors in Grade 1 (video 2)
The "Being A Writer" program guides first-graders through process of crafting the "Beginning," "Middle" and "End" of a story.
Create Poetry
Choose a type of poem, fill in your choice of words, and easily create your own poetry!
How To Hold A Pencil
This short video offers tips to get little fingers comfortable with using a pencil!
Developing Student Writers
This video introduces the value of working in pairs! Presented by the "Being a Writer" Program.
Student Authors in Grade 1 (video 3)
This "Being A Writer" program focuses on how to nurture a commitment to academic vigor!
Becoming a Proud Writer
The "Being A Writer" program offers this video for insightful tips and a brief demonstration of strategies that work!
The Visual Thesaurus
The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.
Developing Student Writers
This video introduces the value of working in pairs! Presented by the "Being a Writer" Program.
Becoming a Proud Writer
The "Being A Writer" program offers this video for insightful tips and a brief demonstration of strategies that work!
Clockwords: Act 1
Use your knowledge of spelling to defend a thinking Victorian clockwork computer from an evil inventor.
Conferring with Student Writers
The "Being A Writer" program offers this brief video about persuasive nonfiction and building student confidence!
A Closer Look at Sentence Structure
See a video about brown bears while learning about sentence structure.
Comic Life
Create comic books, photo albums, and all sorts of great looking projects with your own pictures!
Wordle
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from a story or paper that you’ve written. The more you use a word, the bigger that word appears in the word cloud.
Writing with Writers: Rodman Philbrick Biography
Learn how to write a book review from a real YA author!
Make Beliefs Comix
Choose from lots of characters and fun objects to create your very own comic strip!
Your Story Matters!
This "Being A Writer" video highlights the discussion on how to inspire student writing through books!
Create Poetry
Choose a type of poem, fill in your choice of words, and easily create your own poetry!
VocabGrabber
This site generates a list of useful words from your text and shows how the words are used in context.
New School Writing - Rap Video
Join these elementary students as they rap about the six traits of writing a rap!
Writing and Revising
Learn about revising your writing with this video about the Diary of Anne Frank.
Perfect English: the Possessive Pronouns
Get Possessive about Pronouns! Watch this short video and learn how to combine adjectives and nouns to create your possessive pronouns.
Writing: The Big Idea
This video about Tokyo's Sky City will help you learn about organizing your ideas into paragraphs.
Layer your paper like an Onion
Join Mrs.Black on teachertube and learn how to connect your ideas, building the perfectly layered paragraph!
Conferring with Student Writers
The "Being A Writer" program offers this brief video about persuasive nonfiction and building student confidence!
PowerPoint in 90seconds!
Watch how teachertube offers a quick video on presenting PowerPoint projects! NOTE: RealPlayer Plug-in Required.
Teaching Writing in Middle School
An overview of Laura Robb's latest professional book on teaching middle school writers! Requires RealPlayer plug-in.
Persuasive Writing
Learn about writing persuasive compositions in this video about the illegal immigration debate.
Writing with Writers: Biography
Learn how to research and write a biographical sketch--and then maybe publish your own!
What's a PREDICATE?
Watch this short video grammar lesson and learn the foundation of sentence structure!
Poetry Idea Engine
With the Poetry Idea Engine, you can create haikus, free verse poems, limericks and more!
How to Write a 1st Person Story
Watch this short video for a quick review and start writing your masterpiece in no time!
The Visual Thesaurus
The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.
Research Paper Basics
Watch the Teachertube present this short overview of writing a great research paper!
Clockwords: Act 1
Use your knowledge of spelling to defend a thinking Victorian clockwork computer from an evil inventor.
Developing Student Writers
This video introduces the value of working in pairs! Presented by the "Being a Writer" Program.
Writing with Writers: Rodman Philbrick Biography
Learn how to write a book review from a real YA author!
Make Beliefs Comix
Choose from lots of characters and fun objects to create your very own comic strip!
Know your Audience!
Watch this short video for tips on reaching your intended audience! Note: RealPlayer Plug-in Required.
Comic Life
Create comic books, photo albums, and all sorts of great looking projects with your own pictures!
Tagxedo - Word Cloud Fun
Type or paste text to create word clouds in all shapes, sizes, and cool designs! Words are sized to highlight how frequently each word is used.
The Five Paragraph Essay
This video demonstrates a step-by-step guide on writing a five paragraph essay! Presented by Teachertube.
Sentence Fluency ( I )
Teachertube presents this short two-minute video on crafting a smooth sentence!
Wordle
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from a story or paper that you’ve written. The more you use a word, the bigger that word appears in the word cloud.
How to Write Thesis Statement
It's easy to watch and learn from this Quick 6 minute video presentation!
VocabGrabber
This site generates a list of useful words from your text and shows how the words are used in context.
PowerPoint in 90seconds!
Watch how teachertube offers a quick video on presenting PowerPoint projects! NOTE: RealPlayer Plug-in Required.
Know your Audience!
Watch this short video for tips on reaching your intended audience! Note: RealPlayer Plug-in Required.
VocabGrabber
This site generates a list of useful words from your text and shows how the words are used in context.
What's a PREDICATE?
Watch this short video grammar lesson and learn the foundation of sentence structure!
The Visual Thesaurus
The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.
Persuasive Writing
Learn about writing persuasive compositions in this video about the illegal immigration debate.
Tagxedo - Word Cloud Fun
Type or paste text to create word clouds in all shapes, sizes, and cool designs! Words are sized to highlight how frequently each word is used.
How to Write A Short Story
View this quick and easy video presentation to put your ideas into a short-story-masterpiece!
Researching the Salem Witch Project
Find out how to write about historical topics like the Salem Witch Trials.
Clockwords: Act 1
Use your knowledge of spelling to defend a thinking Victorian clockwork computer from an evil inventor.
Now Creating a New Plan
You'll be able to add text, files and other info to meet your student's needs. You'll be redirected to your new page in just a second.
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