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Twelve 15-minute lessons
Produced 1983
School-use rights: one year
Grades 7-8 / language arts
Video Library
7 LA

This series blends language arts skills with problem-solving techniques to help students prepare effective written and spoken messages, listen attentively and present their thoughts clearly, organize their ideas and evaluate their work.

Divided into four process clusters, the programs show how language arts skills taught in the seventh and eighth grades are useful for the communication tasks that students encounter every day.

1. Getting Ready: Consider Your Audience
2. Getting Ready: Breaking Down a Topic
3. Getting Ready: Using People Sources
4. Organizing Ideas: Organizing Your Message
5. Organizing Ideas: Would an Example Help?
6. Giving Meaning to Messages: Using the Words of Others
7. Giving Meaning to Messages: What’s the Best Word?
8. Giving Meaning to Messages: How Can I Get People to Listen?
9. Giving Meaning to Messages: Active Listening
10. Giving Meaning to Messages: Am I Getting Through?
11. Evaluating: Building on Your Work
12. Evaluating: How Can I Be a Constructive Critic?