Titles

Grade Level

Descriptions

Discovering LA: Writing

K-2

From prewriting, drafting, and editing to organizational strategies to the variety of forms and purposes, introduce young students to the general skills and strategies of the writing process. All content is tied to national standards and benchmarks.

Discovering LA: Writing

3-5

From common figures of speech and descriptive language to basic sentence and paragraph structure, introduce students to the stylistic and rhetorial aspects of writing.

Discovering LA: Writing

6-8

From drafting, editing, and publishing to organizational strategies to the variety of forms and purposes of writing, students are introduced to writing narrative accounts, autobiographical compositions, business letters, technical compositions, and responses to literature.

Discovering LA: Writing

9-12

This comprehensive video collection uses high-quality documentary footage to examine high-school-level writing, reading, grammar, listening and speaking skills, and media literacy skills.
Improve your writing by learning to organize, edit, revise, and publish. Through real-world scenarios, learn how to write for different purposes and different audiences.

Literacy and Learning:
LA: Writing Grade 8

8

features Writer's Workshop, highlighting seven effective instructional practices: Mini-lessons; Status of the Class; Student-Teacher Conferences; Peer Conferences; Independent Writing; Share Circle and Publication. Also includes an exploration of Status of the Class as a management technique and a Goal Setting Conference.

Lesson Collection: Interactive Writing

Primary Grades

In response to a book they are reading, this group of first graders is discussing what they would like to do on a Saturday at home. This lesson illustrates the interactive writing strategy...the teacher engages a small group of kids in a discussion that relates the story they have just read to their real life experiences. The teacher works with a girl to help her write a sentence she used to describe what she would do on the weekend. We see the teacher helping the student with sound-letter relationships, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Produced by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

Writing Strategies

3-5

Trek into the deserts of the United States for a look at the parts of speech. Explore desert nouns and the verbs that detail how they move. Use adjectives to describe the barren landscape and the creepy, crawly animals that live there. Then head for the hills for a look at adverbs.

Club Write Kids
Club Write

4-5

Creating A Writing Profile
Writing A Fictional Story
Writing A Mystery
Writing A Play
Writing About Family
Writing About Feelings
Writing An Autobiography
Writing from Oral History
Writing in Science
Writing to Persuade
Descriptive Writing
Dramatic Writing
Expository Writing
Journal Writing
Lyric Writing
Math Writing
Persuasive Writing
Writing A Research Paper
Writing Epitaphs
Writing Reports

Writing The News

Pendemonium

3-5

The Ink on the Spinx
The Italian Job
The Posse in Australia
Unnatural Selection: Quotation Marks
Behind Enemy Lines: Coordinating Conjunctions
Star Words: Apostrophes and Double Negatives
The Great African Safari
The Great China Chase

 

Rules of Punctuation

3-8

Using good punctuation helps us write clearly, makes our writing easier to read, and helps our readers understand what we mean. Exciting graphics and video footage combine with the rules of punctuation as students learn about period usage, the exclamation point, question marks, commas, the apostrophe, quotation marks, the colon, semicolon, and parentheses.

Writer’s Circle

7-12

Various

Conversations with SC Writers

4-12

Various

Discovering LA: Style, Structure, and Tone

K-2

By examining descriptive words and how they convey basic ideas, introduce young students to the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing. All content is tied to national standards and benchmarks.

Discovering LA: Style, Structure, and Tone

3-5

From descriptive language to the variety of sentence structures to the elements within a paragraph, introduce elementary students to the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing. All content is tied to national standards and benchmarks.

Discovering LA: Style, Structure, and Tone

6-8

From figurative language and imagery to variations on sentence and paragraph structure, introduce middle school students to the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing.

Discovering LA: Style, Structure, and Tone

9-12

This comprehensive video collection uses high-quality documentary footage to examine high-school-level writing, reading, grammar, listening and speaking skills, and media literacy skills.
Explore the structure of written material and the many ways to incorporate figurative language. Learn how to communicate to a particular audience, and how an author's choice of narrator affects the text.

Discovering LA: Parts of Speech

K-2

From print practices to the parts of speech to declarative and interrogative sentences, introduce young students to grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions. All content is tied to national standards and benchmarks.

Discovering LA: Nonfiction

9-12

This comprehensive video collection uses high-quality documentary footage to examine high school level writing, reading, grammar, listening & speaking skills, and media literacy skills. From biographies, journals, maps, speeches, encyclopedias, and Internet articles, high school students learn about a variety of informational texts. Explore ways to summarize and paraphrase information, how to critically evaluate a source's credibility, and how to break down a complicated subject into smaller parts.