PBS
Pbs: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Proper Punctuation for Titles
This video focuses on correctly punctuating titles. Small works (short stories, essays, magazine and newspaper articles, etc.) are indicated with the use of quotation marks. Larger works, such as books or movies, are indicated either...
Read Works
Read Works: Give Thanks
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about Thanksgiving traditions in a Native American family. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Bumper Boat Bash
Multiplayer language arts game where bumper boats race by selecting the correct plural noun.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Game
A lesson plan in which young scholars play a game by determining affixes and their meanings in order to move around the board. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Meaningful Affixes
A lesson plan in which students add affixes to alter the meaning of words. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Concentration
A lesson plan in which students play a memory game by matching affixes with their meanings. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Exploration [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Lesson Plans for Forming Possessives
This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Comparative Adjectives Using "Er" and "Est"
Students will construct comparative adjectives using the correct suffix (er and est) in this whiteboard lesson activity.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Email Clarifying Questions
At the end of this lesson, students will demonstrate the use of commas, clarifying questions, and a friendly letter format by sending an email. Email is part of student's lives, and it is part of the digital landscape they will need to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Nifty Nouns
This lesson plan will introduce students to nouns. Students will practice identifying nouns in a book and on the Internet. A noun quilt will be created at the end of the lesson plan to demonstrate students' understanding of nouns.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Use the Correct Capitalization
Capitalizing is extremely important. Not only is it proper writing, but it also makes writing look polished and finished. Learn what should be capitalized and what shouldn't! [0:53]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Introduce Lists and Quotes With Colons
Colons are punctuation marks that can signal a quotation. However, to use colons correctly, whatever comes before the colon must be a complete sentence. Know when and how to use colons! [0:45]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using Punctuation for Breaks and Pauses
Punctuation indicates how one should read any sentence. Commas, for example, indicate when a reader should take a brief pause, either for emphasis or for comprehension. [0:40]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Hyphenation Conventions
This video [0:48) discusses how hyphens indicate specific nouns from compound words. Without them, they could refer to completely different things! Know when and how to use them.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What Are Collective Nouns?
A collective noun is a word that refers to a group, such as a collection, a herd, a team! [0:37]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Forming and Using Possessive Nouns
Possessives show when a noun belongs to someone. It is often indicated with an apostrophe "s", but when words end in "s" only an apostrophe is added.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Salutations, Valedictions, Dates, and Addresses
Commas are needed when starting or ending a letter/email, writing out dates, or writing out addresses.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Common and Proper Nouns
Learn to distinguish common and proper nouns from one another!
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Looking at Writing: Second Grade
In this section, you'll find writing assessment resources, writing strategies, and additional tip sheets for teachers and parents on how to help second graders build strong writing skills. You'll also find videos on teaching writing....
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Nonfiction
Provides advice for how to incorporate nonfiction into a reading program. Includes videos, links to downloadable 'adventure packs,' tip sheets for parent, a list of websites on nonfiction, and articles.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing Fix's List of Prepositions [Pdf]
This is a PDF providing a handout with an extensive list of prepositions.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Commas
This site offers links to five interactive practices using commas and accompanying handouts. Adobe Reader is required.