Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Expository Writing: What Kind of Friend
This is an expository writing activity using the Makes Sense Writing Strategies.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Choosing Between Definite and in Definite Articles
Learn when to use 'a,' 'an,' and 'the.'
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Writing Letters
The students will learn how to form a proper letter. They will be able to remove key ideas/details from a text and apply it to their writing. They will also be able to incorporate transition and descriptive words into their writing.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Write Your Own Flight Story
Online writing prompt for young journalists to-be. Excellent for diagnostic or even more advanced teaching of journalism.
University of Oregon
Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Storytelling Boxes
This PIZZAZ lesson allows students the opportunity to engage in the small group task of audio-storytelling or video storytelling, after being given a shoebox filled with symbols and unique items.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Subject
Clear information about sentence subject, including definition, explanation of how to find subject, distinction between complete subject and simple subject, and other helpful points.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Writing Practice: Plurals
Students type a sentence for each of twenty different plural words. When finished, they can create a PDF of their sentences and print them out to share.
Other
Sanchezclass.com: Four Types of Writing
Definitions of the four types of writing: narrative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive.
TES Global
Blendspace: Adjectives & Articles
A fifteen-part learning module on adjectives and articles including links to images, videos, games, and activities.
TES Global
Blendspace: Adjectives
An eight-part learning module with links to videos, websites, learning games, charts, and images to learn all about adjectives and how they are used in sentences.
TES Global
Blendspace: Nouns
An eight-part learning module with images, charts, links, exercises, and videos filled with explanations and examples of different types of nouns.
TES Global
Blendspace: Word Types
A six-part learning module with links to images, websites, and a video on different parts of speech.
TES Global
Blendspace: Parts of Speech
A nine-part learning module with links to images containing information and graphic organizers about the parts of speech.
TES Global
Blendspace: Nouns
An eleven-part learning module with links to images, videos, and websites to use while learning about nouns.
TES Global
Blendspace: Narrative Writing
An eighteen-part learning module with links to images and websites to use while learning to write a narrative text.
TES Global
Blendspace: Parts of Speech Review and Quiz
A seventeen-part learning module including links images, videos, texts, and quizzes on the eight parts of speech.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Structure Is Important
A thirteen-part learning module with links to videos, texts, websites, and slideshows about sentence structure and avoiding sentence errors.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: Questions
An explanation and examples of a question and how it is structured. Links to additional information on structure, questions types, and a quiz are available.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Features of a Newspaper
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart that examines the way in which newspapers and articles are constructed. The end of the flipchart focuses specifically on the battle of Glencoe, but the majority of the flipchart has much...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a flipchart that introduces the four types of sentences and then works on complete and incomplete sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Combining Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains opportunities to combine sentences focusing on subjects and predicates.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Compound Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines compound sentences and discusses conjunctions and punctuation to combine the sentences. It provides many examples utilizing color-coding to help define each of the sentence parts.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Connectives
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart investigates connecting words and phrases, providing examples with different kinds of text. It helps students to identify the connecting words by helping them classify the various examples.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Leads
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn about different types of leads for stories. This interactive flipchart has examples of leads, Activote assessment, and activities for students to work on independently or in groups....