Narrative Paragraph

This video shows how to incorporate the Simple Past, Past Progressive, and time words in a narrative paragraph or story. The topic is a busy day. Make sure you notice and read the outline on the left before you begin. The narration follows the outline of a busy Thursday.

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Lesson Outcome
Students will be able to write a unified and cohesive narrative paragraph.

Course Overview

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Explanatory Paragraph
This group writing of an explanatory paragraph explains how you are an optimistic (positive) person. This video goes into further explanation of concluding sentences. CAUTION: This is a live class video. You will hear students speaking and responding to the instruction.
Current Lesson
1
Explanatory Paragraph
This group writing of an explanatory paragraph explains how you are an optimistic (positive) person. This video goes into further explanation of concluding sentences. CAUTION: This is a live class video. You will hear students speaking and responding to the instruction.
2
Cause/Order of Importance Paragraph
This video shows how to write a Cause Paragraph from an outline using the most important reason for the final point. The topic is exercising at a gym. The topic sentence, transitions, general specific pattern, and concluding sentence are discussed.
Current Lesson
2
Cause/Order of Importance Paragraph
This video shows how to write a Cause Paragraph from an outline using the most important reason for the final point. The topic is exercising at a gym. The topic sentence, transitions, general specific pattern, and concluding sentence are discussed.
3
Description of a Room Paragraph
This video shows you how to write a descriptive paragraph of a room. A picture of the room is provided during the narration. CAUTION: This is a live class video. You will hear students speaking and responding to the instruction.
Current Lesson
3
Description of a Room Paragraph
This video shows you how to write a descriptive paragraph of a room. A picture of the room is provided during the narration. CAUTION: This is a live class video. You will hear students speaking and responding to the instruction.
4
Narrative Paragraph
This video shows how to incorporate the Simple Past, Past Progressive, and time words in a narrative paragraph or story. The topic is a busy day. Make sure you notice and read the outline on the left before you begin. The narration follows the outline of a busy Thursday.
Current Lesson
4
Narrative Paragraph
This video shows how to incorporate the Simple Past, Past Progressive, and time words in a narrative paragraph or story. The topic is a busy day. Make sure you notice and read the outline on the left before you begin. The narration follows the outline of a busy Thursday.
5
Unity Problem
This video explains how to correct problems of unity. The three points of the paragraph do not match the topic sentence.
Current Lesson
5
Unity Problem
This video explains how to correct problems of unity. The three points of the paragraph do not match the topic sentence.
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Cohesion and Repetition of Key Words
This video explains how to repeat key words from the topic sentence throughout the paragraph.
Current Lesson
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Cohesion and Repetition of Key Words
This video explains how to repeat key words from the topic sentence throughout the paragraph.

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