Improve Social Skills for Teenagers

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Welcome to my editing verbal narratives activity. Check out this excerpt from the training video I did for the New York City Department of Education. Next comes Editing Verbal Narratives, very similar to Time Sensitivity, but approached from a different angle. This is for students that give too many details, and don't know how to be more concise. And it starts with a whole verbal narrative which is written, and the student goes through and omits all of the sentences or parts of sentences that they think are not necessary. And by “not necessary” usually that means something that your listener would really not be that interested in, or it could be redundant information- you don't have to repeat yourself. So this can also serve as a helpful evaluation tool because, it's very interesting, I'll see some students omit very little and I see they have a hard time understanding that you don't have to say: “the temperature of the water in the air”, when you've already said how “on a hot day you jump into the icy cold water”. So, this helps students learn not to give too many details when giving narratives. Thanks for reviewing my description of my editing verbal narratives activity. If you like what you've seen here, please click and subscribe to my channel. I’m not exactly sure what that means, but my web guy told me it's a thing!

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