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Discovering Adjectives in a Story
This video encourages viewers to identify and understand the role of adjectives in a story about a cricket and an ant. It highlights various adjectives, including descriptive words about characters, settings, and emotions, demonstrating...
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Adjectives in Action: Placement Matters
This video explores how adjectives function in sentences, focusing on their placement after verbs. Using examples like the colors of the American flag and the description of a hat, the lesson explains how adjectives can follow verbs to...
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Punctuation Perfection: Using Commas with Adjectives
This video focuses on the correct use of commas in sentences with multiple adjectives, using engaging examples like fish descriptions and seaweed hiding spots. It teaches how commas separate adjectives to make sentences clearer and...
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Mastering Adjective Order in Language
This video explains the importance of the correct order of adjectives in sentences. Using examples like "big, blue, beach umbrella" and "three tiny baby crabs," it illustrates how the sequence of adjectives like size, color, number, and...
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The World of Adjectives: Describing Our World
This video introduces the concept of adjectives, words that describe nouns, providing examples to illustrate their importance in language. It explains how adjectives can describe size, shape, color, quantity, and texture, enhancing our...
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Autobiography: Brainstorming
Mr. Griot describes the characteristics of an autobiography. He also brainstorms and uses a graphic organizer to begin writing his own autobiography.
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Subject-Verb Agreement: Let’s Get Along
Mr. Griot is a contestant on the game show Let’s Get Along. He has to correctly use subject-verb agreement.
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Conjunctions: Read, Combine, Revise
Mr. Griot describes the function of a coordinating conjunction and demonstrates for the student how to combine and correct sentences using a comma and coordinating conjunction.
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What Does It Mean and What Does It Mean to You?
Mr. Griot introduces the terms denotation and connotation and discusses the literal and implied meanings of words.
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Understanding Irregular Plural Nouns
Join us in this lesson as we learn about irregular plural nouns. Most plural nouns only require an S or ES at the end, but some words are rule breakers. We have to memorize plural nouns like feet, mice, children, or men. Can you think of...
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Understanding Root Words and Affixes
In this video, we learn all about root words and affixes. Root words are basic verbs, like COOK or JUMP. Affixes are the little parts of words that we add to root words to change their meaning. For example -ing or -ed are affixes we can...
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Learning About Contractions: Making Words Shorter and Faster
In this video, Jenny and Lucas learn about contractions as they prepare for the grand opening of their store. They explore how contractions are formed by removing letters and using apostrophes. The video covers various common...
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The Mighty Power of Conjunctions
In this lesson we learn all about conjunctions: those tricky little words that help us link words and phrases together. We use conjunctions all the time when we speak, but this video tells us exactly how to use the most basic conjunctions.
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Understanding Collective Nouns
Join us in this lesson as we explain the difference between collective and plural nouns. Collective nouns are groups of nouns, like a family, a neighborhood, or a bouquet of flowers. Although there are many people or things together, we...
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Capitalizing Proper Nouns
In this lesson, students learn all about proper nouns. A proper noun is the specific name of a person, place, or thing. Just like your name is capitalized, as is the name of your city or favorite cereal, all proper nouns must begin with...
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Connecting Thoughts with Because and But
In this video, we learn how to use conjunctions just like the snaps on a jacket. Conjunctions are words like and, because, but, and so. We use them to connect ideas in writing or expand our sentences. Instead of saying, "I love polar...
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Exploring Syllables
What do the words alligator, elevator, and watermelon have in common? They have four syllables of course! Syllables are the units of pronunciation in language. In this video, students learn to break words into syllables by clapping,...
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Combining Sentences
Join us today as we learn how to combine simple sentences into longer, complex sentences. In this video, we review how to use dependent clauses, conjunctions, and appositives to help piece together short sentences into a looonngg, smooth...
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Using Commas in Letter Writing
This video is all about the comma. Commas are punctuation used to separate lists, numbers, or ideas. We use commas to show a short pause, like just now! Commas can be tricky to learn, so we'll start with commas used in letter writing....
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The Writing Process
In this video, students are introduced to the writing process, a step by step guide to help writers tackle this subject. Young writers are encouraged to follow the process and create excellent writing.
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Using Context Clues to Understand Unfamiliar Words
Join us in this video to learn how to use context clues. Context clues help us identify the meaning of unknown words in texts or reading passages. When you stumble upon an unknown word, try rereading the sentence and looking for clues...
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The Writing Process: Creating a Picture Book of Community Heroes
Join us in this lesson as we learn all about the writing process. The writing process is a step by step guide to help us take an idea and turn it into a written masterpiece. Start from the beginning and take baby steps, writing doesn't...
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Learning About Verbs: Past, Present, and Future Tenses
Join us in this video as we learn all about verb tenses. Students will be introduced to the past, present, and future tenses and how these tenses affect our verbs. We learn common spelling and writing patterns to help us speak and write...
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Expanding Sentences: Adding Toppings to Your Writing
Which sentence is better? My dog swims. OR Every Saturday, my dog swims in the lake at In this video, students learn how to transform a simple sentence into an expanded one. Using questions, like "when, where, and why", help us to add...