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Teaching without frills

This is a YouTube channel with simple teaching resources to help students learn writing.

Structure and features

For students and families

With teacher guidance these videos can support the teaching and learning program happening at home or at school. This includes helping students create different kinds of texts.

For teachers

These teacher-made videos go with lessons and units of work. Popular videos include:

  • Persuasive writing for kids: What is it?
  • Writing a personal narrative for kids
  • Informational writing: What is it?
  • Opinion writing for kids: What is it?
  • Fact and opinion for kids
  • How to evaluate sources for reliability
  • Parts of speech
  • How to write a research paper.