Sure, we all know what periods, exclamation marks and question marks are, but you’d be surprised how often people use them incorrectly! By illustrating all of the rules and tricks, the Standard Deviants show you when and where you should – and shouldn’t – use these punctuation marks. You’ll also learn about that ever-useful punctuation mark, the comma.
Subjects: English Language
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How to Write a Report and a Personal Letter
Students learn that writing is a process that involves at least four steps; prewriting, drafting, revising and editing. They understand that the writing process helps them write clear, thoughtful pieces that communicate their ideas to others in a clear and concise manner. The five parts of a personal letter; heading, greeting, body, complimentary close and signature line are also introduced and discussed. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Rules of Punctuation
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. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Eight Parts of Speech
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. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction (2) Noun (3) Pronoun (4) Verb (5) Adjective (6) adverb (7) Preposition (8) Conjunction (9) Interjections (10) Conclusion.
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Understanding English as a Second Language (ESE)
Introduces eight fundamental principles crucial to teaching ESL and illustrates these principles, teacher interviews and actual classroom situations.
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ESL Teaching Strategies for Elementary Students
Demonstrates teaching strategies to help elementary ESL students learn language and content.
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ESL Teaching Strategies for Secondary Students
Demonstrates teaching strategies to help junior and senior high ESL students learn language and content
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Overview
This program will present an overview of the writing project based on the Writer’s Workshop approach. The theoretical framework, the methodology and an overview of the three stages of writing: pre-writing, writing and post-writing will be explored in a variety of educational contexts, at all age levels, in native language programs (French and English), and in second language contexts (French and Ukrainian). Pedagogical adaptations necessary for second language settings are shared as well as learning outcomes of students involved with this approach.
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Pre-writing
This program will present how teachers set up a healthy and rich learning environment for students involved in the writing project in their respective educational context. Examples of mini-lessons, used to launch writing projects or to teach different aspects of the writing process, as well as interviews with teachers, shed light on how this teaching approach is implemented in a variety of learning contexts.
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Writing
In this program, you will see how teachers serve as models of writing for their students. Emphasis is placed on providing time and feedback to the students who engage in the act of writing. This video presents a variety of examples of how one deals with a first draft. Feedback is given in teacher – student conferences, student – student conferences. The difference between revising and editing text will be explained.