Andrews McMeel Publishing
POW! A Peanuts Collection
Make a study of Charles M. Scultz's famous comic strip Peanuts in your language arts class. Class members read and discuss the baseball-themed book POW! A Peanuts Collection. After talking about themes and vocabulary, they complete...
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.
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Capitalization: Sentences, Quotations, Proper Nouns, & Names
This TurtleDiary interactive video lesson [4:28] features information about capitalization. Rules on capitalizing sentences, direct quotations, proper nouns, and family names are included. Practice exercises are provided to supplement...
Other
Youtube: Magic Spell Using Ge and Dge
In this video, a teacher works with a student to master the spelling rules governing the /j/ sound at the ends of words.
Other
You Tube: The Spell Mom Learn How to Spell Ould Words
Wordina introduces students to -ould words, with a clever trick to remember how to spell them.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Group Research Into Categories to Plan Informational Writing
In this lesson, you will learn how to outline an informational text by grouping facts into chapters. [3:46]
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Apostrophes and Plurals
There is *one* extremely rare case in which we use apostrophes to make things plural. David and Paige, KA's resident grammarians, discuss this unusual case.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Use Correct Capitalization: Adding Capitals
Learn how to capitalize the first word on a sentence, the pronoun "I", and proper nouns. [7:20]
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.