Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Action Verbs

3rd - 5th Standards
In this 3rd through 5th grade video, students connect exercise and literacy. The teacher reads a sentence aloud and students must identify the action verb that was read and then act it out accordingly. This is a great lesson to combine...
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Use Prepositional Phrases to Expand Sentences

4th Standards
Writers add prepositional phrases to add details to their sentences. Let's expand our sentences by adding prepositional phrases. [7:52]
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Use Modal Auxiliaries (e.g. Can, May, Must)

4th Standards
Writers make their writing clear by using modal auxiliaries correctly to show different times, moods or conditions. Let's practice using the modal auxiliaries can, may, and must to describe situations. [10:49]
Instructional Video
Yossarian the Grammarian

English Grammar: What a Verb Is, and What Verbs Aren't

9th - 10th Standards
This is a YouTube video lesson concerning what a verb really is in a sentence. He defines it as a word with a subject.
Instructional Video
Yossarian the Grammarian

Grammar: Modal Verbs and Auxiliary Verbs

9th - 10th Standards
This is a YouTube video lesson about modal and auxiliary verbs. Modals are verbs such as could, would, or might which cannot stand alone, and auxiliary verbs are verbs such as do, be, and have which can be helping verbs or can stand alone.