Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Capitalize Days, Months, Holidays, Seasons, and Directions
This three-minute video focuses on the rules for capitalizing particular types of proper nouns, especially days of the week, months, holidays, seasons, and directions.
Other
You Tube: Commas in Dates and Lists
Watch Super Comma help to make lists and dates make more sense.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: How to Use Commas With Conjunctions: No Nonsense Grammar
Conjunctions can join two separate clauses, but sometimes they need commas. Learn how to do so correctly.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: How to Use the Correct Capitalization: No Nonsense Grammar
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 in this video.
Curated Video
You Tube: End Punctuation
This video talks about end punctuation, a Common Core standard for Kindergarten students. (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.B: Recognize and name end punctuation.) Here we talk about the three different punctuations that can go at the end of a...
Curated Video
Kids Academy: Punctuation in English | Punctuation at the End of a Sentence| 1st
Punctuation is a very important part of written English, it clears the meaning of words and expresses what is being said in the right manner. Without punctuation, the sentences would remain confused and the meanings will be unclear. For...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Three Ways to End a Sentence
David and Paige, KA's resident grammarians, introduce the three ways to end a sentence: the period, the exclamation point, and the question mark.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to the Apostrophe
David and Paige, KA's resident grammarians, introduce a new piece of punctuation: the apostrophe!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Commas in Space and Time
Learn how to use commas when writing addresses (in space) and dates (in time).
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: How to Recognize a Phrase: No Nonsense Grammar
This video focuses on phrases, groups of related words that does not include both a subject and a verb. It only has one or the other.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Forming and Using Possessive Nouns: No Nonsense Grammar
This video focuses on forming and using possessive nouns; they 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.
Songs for Teaching
Songs for Teaching: N Apostrophe T
Learn this simple contraction with this clever song.