This is a collection of short, engaging videos that explain various punctuation concepts. Topics include hyphenation, colons, semicolons and commas. The videos are primarily directed to elementary students.
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isn't easy holding complex sentences together (just ask a conjunction or a subordinate), but the clever little comma can help lighten the load. But how to tell when help is really needed?
It may seem like the semicolon is struggling with an identity crisis. It looks like a comma crossed with a period and we’re confused about how to use them properly. Emma Bryce clarifies best practices for the semi-confusing semicolon.
It’s possessive. It’s often followed by S’s. And it’s sometimes tricky when it comes to its usage. It’s the apostrophe. Laura McClure gives a refresher on when to use apostrophes in writing.
In this collection of videos from Khan Academy, you’ll hear from Pixar directors and story artists about how they got their start and what stories inspire them.
While many of these deadlines have passed, it is never to early to start thinking about next year. Use this list of real-world contests to get your students excited about writing and an authentic purpose or audience for composition.
As you play, 20 grains of rice are donated to a person in need for each correct answer. Move beyond vocabulary; change subjects if your specialty is math, literature or geography.
In this 15 minute video Newberry Award winning author Jack Gantos, shares creative writing tips to help middle school students become authors while telling a narrative of his own. Grade 7 is especially enthralled with his humor in this mentor text video.
This post offers a brief biography about an award winning author and then shares their writing advice for students. Some authors write a paragraph, others write a page; explore the writing style of each author with these mini-lesson ideas.
How many different verb tenses are there in English? It isn't as simple as past, present and future. This video explains grammatical aspect and how each of those time periods actually divides further.
Why is it essential that you know the setting of a piece of literature that you are reading? Does this add to the plot? Does it change what you think about the characters?
Skip to the 3rd page of this guide for a fun way to embed grammar and figurative language in your students' creative writing. This guide offers a lesson idea with an exemplar.
Resources and lesson plans from Blackgold school district that are focused on reading and writing organizers. If you click the links, there is a sign-in prompt -- but you can bypass the sign-in by clicking the image instead and will be able to access all the Google slides associated with that image
Resources and lesson plans from Blackgold school district that are focused on reading and writing organizers. If you click the links, there is a sign-in prompt -- but you can bypass the sign-in by clicking the image instead and will be able to access all the Google slides associated with that image
Resources and lesson plans from Blackgold school district that are focused on reading and writing organizers. If you click the links, there is a sign-in prompt -- but you can bypass the sign-in by clicking the image instead and will be able to access all the Google slides associated with that image
