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Review for You: Fragment, Run-on, and Complete Sentences
Mr. Griot reviews the components of a sentence and practices identifying complete sentences, sentence fragments, and run on sentences.
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Review for You: Complete Sentences and Fragments
Mr. Griot reviews how to identify sentence fragments as opposed to a complete sentence. He also reviews finding the subject and predicates in a sentence as well as identifying the type of sentence if it is complete.
TED Talks
Tom Nash: The perks of being a pirate
In this deeply charming and humorous talk, DJ and self-professed pirate Tom Nash meditates on how facing adversity due to disability invited patience, ambition and pragmatism into his life in enlightening, unexpected ways. "We all have...
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Recognizing and Correcting Run-On Sentences
In this video, the teacher guides students through a lesson on recognizing and correcting run-on sentences. The teacher explains the components of a complete sentence, such as the subject and predicate, and demonstrates how to identify...
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Collecting Evidence to Support Your Argumentative Essay
In this video, the teacher explains how to gather evidence to support an argumentative essay. They discuss the importance of having strong evidence and provide examples of different types of evidence, such as observations, statistics,...
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Can You Fix It?
Mr. Griot reviews complete sentences and shows how to identify and correct sentence fragments and run-on sentences. He then uses a game format to practice using these skills.
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Main Sentence Types
Main Sentence Types practices identifying the three main sentence types by deciding if sentences are simple, compound, or complex.
Wonderscape
Building Strong Sentences: A Guide to Grammar and Capitalization
Students will learn how to write and comprehend the four types of sentences, identify parts of speech and understand the basic rules of capitalization.
IDG TECHtalk
Ranking Apple's worst products of all time
Apple has released its fair share of disappointing or frustrating products, and just last year the company settled a lawsuit over allegedly slowing down older iPhone models. Macworld executive editor Michael Simon and Computerworld...
Visual Learning Systems
Simple Machines: Introduction
A day does not go by without using simple machines. This program explores the six major types of simple machines with practical, colorful examples of each. Vivid video footage illustrates how each of the following simple machines works...
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Compound-Complex Sentences | Learning English
Learn how to identify compound-complex sentences and start using them in your own writing. Good writers use a variety of sentence structures to make their writing more engaging.
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Compound Sentences | Video Lessons
A video lesson teaching students to identify and write compound sentences. Lesson includes worksheet and activities. Download the lesson worksheet (see Link #1) before starting the lesson.
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Plate Boundaries
This video is about tectonic plates and plate boundaries. It explains the three main types of plate boundaries: convergent, divergent, and transform. The video also gives examples of each type of boundary and how they affect the Earth's...
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Name That Sentence Part
Mr. Griot explains how to find subjects and predicates in sentences.
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UX Design for Web Developers (Video 1)
User experience (UX) design is a theoretical understanding of how users interact with websites. The major challenge developers building a company website face is finding the right balance that fulfills the objectives of the company as...
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Using Commas: Direct Address
Using Commas: Direct Address teaches how to use of commas to set off words from the rest of the sentence by writing five complete sentences, each of which contains a direct address followed by a comma.
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Investigating Conjunctions
"Investigating Conjunctions" identifies and uses conjunctions in sentences.
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Writing Simple Sentences: Subject, Verb, and Complete Thought
This video provides a clear and concise explanation of how to write a simple sentence. It breaks down the process into three steps: identifying the subject, finding the verb, and ensuring it is a complete thought. Through examples and...
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Subjects and Predicates
Mr. Griot teaches how to identify the subject and predicate of a sentence and models how to write sentences with correct subjects and predicates.
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Review for You: Parts of Speech
Mr. Griot conducts a brief review of the parts of speech preposition, interjection, and conjunction by completing activities designed to identify and use them.
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Mastering Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
This video is a teacher-led lesson on the importance of ensuring pronouns clearly refer to their antecedents in writing. The teacher provides examples and exercises for students to practice identifying and revising ambiguous pronouns,...
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Review for You: Subjects and Predicates
Mr. Griot will review both the subject and predicate of a sentence and help the student learn to identify each.
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Understanding Adjectives
In this video, students will learn about adjectives and how they are used to describe nouns in sentences. The video explains the function of adjectives in providing more clarity and visualization to readers. Students will also practice...