Building Better Paragraphs (1953)
1953 · Short film · 10 min
Kids get schooled on paragraphs.
- Documentary
Synopsis
The members of a sixth-grade class learn to construct good paragraphs by composing a topic sentence, by relating other ideas to it in proper sequence and by composing an effective concluding sentence.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Released
- 1953-01-01
- Running time
- 10 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Good Movie · JayKay49 · 2018-01-10
We learned this, not in English, but in pre-journalism in the 8th grade. That class taught me how to write a good paper. I won two scholastic writing awards in HS - one of them in the 10th grade. The end segment is important. Outline, outline, outline! Organize your ideas. Take some time doing it. That makes writing a paper as easy as ringing a bell. You can then use your time modeling each of the sentences to acquire optimal continuity and maximize persuasiveness.
★★★ · Major approval. · Spuzz · 2017-02-06
This film is good and is about paragraphs. The pudgy kid was annoying. When a kid gains an award at the dog show, the class wants to write about the award in the school paper. They don't know what to put first. The teacher is happy with the results. The dog loses. The class soon realize they need to have a central idea for each paragraph and put things in order, and therefore everything will make sense.