Best educational videos to complement children’s learning. Instructional and ‘how to’ videos that explain concepts and help build essential skills. Find thousands of Khan academy videos, Lumos Learning videos along with many other interesting resources from top publishers. Recommend helpful videos to colleagues, friends, or students. Share feedback and submit reviews.
Strong Organization in Writing
By OnDemandInstruction
This video presents what strong organization looks like in writing. It shows an example of strong organization in a paragraph, and it shows what an outline on this topic might look like.
Keep Your Story Moving With a Cohesive Narrative
By K.M. Weiland
This video gives advice on how to make your writing more cohesive.
Opening Paragraphs
By ProfessorBernstein
In this video, the professor advises students to begin an essay with a focus on not only their topic but also their audience and purpose. Then, she reviews the requirements of a good opening paragraph: the topic, the essay context, a thesis, and the main points to be supported in later paragraphs.
How to Write an Essay
By eHow
This teacher-created video contains a narrator explaining the steps of writing an essay beginning with choosing an appropriate topic, conducting research, and writing a rough draft. The video ends with detailed directions on forming an introductory paragraph
Common Core Writing Standard 7.2: Research projects
By OnDemandInstruction
This instructional video covers Common Core Writing Standard 7 on conducting research projects. It covers writing a first draft using an outline from the planning stage and revising the research paper using a checklist
Plagiarism: Downloading or Buying Whole Papers
By The Critical Thinker Academy
This video discusses the most blatant form of plagiarism, downloading or buying whole papers and submitting them as your own.
synthesis in literary analysis essays
By WarnerJordanEducation
This podcast is on the synthesis essay. The prompt asks students to form an opinion, support opinion with evidence from a primary text and from additional texts. The prompt -- Choose one of the 12 karmic laws (from "Little Known Laws of Karma") and argue whether it is a valid or invalid law, using evidence from the poem "The Road Less Traveled" and two bullying articles to support your claim.
The Short Response
By OnDemandInstruction
This video presents the short response and how it differs from an essay.
There Is – There Are | Periwinkle
By Periwinkle
This video uses a picture of a birthday party to explain when to use "There are" and "There is". Use "There are" when there is more than one person or object. Use "There is" when there is one person or object.
Commas & Quotes - He Said / She Said (The Electric Company)
By theelectriccompany
Billy and Kate get in big trouble with mom! The Electric Company features animation, music, comedy and celebrities to show how the power of words can solve problems, especially those caused by a naughty group of neighborhood Pranksters! This TV show, online destination, and community outreach exper