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Verbals: Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles | Parts of Speech App Instructional VideoVerbals: Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles | Parts of Speech App Instructional Video
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Ereading Worksheets
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7th - 9th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Instructional Videos
Media Length
6:33
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Duration
10 mins
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2015
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Verbals: Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles | Parts of Speech App

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Learn about the three verbals—gerunds, infinitives, and participles—by finding out what they are and how to identify them, with an informative and engaging video. Additionally, obtain warnings and helpful tips to avoid making simple sentence mistakes. Lastly, take part in an interactive pop quiz, and end the lesson with a brief review.  

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

verbals, sentence structure, verbs, gerunds, infinitives, participles, nouns, adjectives, pronouns

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Take screenshots, or create anchor charts displaying the information presented in the video
  • Follow along with a laser pointer, or app, to direct scholars' attention toward key details
  • Flip you classroom; assign the video as homework prior to in class disucssion and application 

Classroom Considerations

  • An ad appears at the beginning of the video 
  • This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

  • The narrator speaks clearly and at a decent rate
  • The overall look of the video has a simplified design for easy reading
  • Examples grab the viewer's focus through fun graphics and voices

Cons

  • Each screenshot contains a large amount of information which may be overwhelming for some class members 

Common Core

L.8.1.a

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