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Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Final Copy
Mr. Griot reviews the rough draft he wrote about baseball. Then he uses a rubric to evaluate his work. Once he edits and corrects the paper, he writes a final copy of the research report about baseball.
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Mr. Griot and the Classic Car Show
Mr. Griot writes a news article for the local newspaper. He decides what to write about and creates a rough draft. Then he edits the rough draft using the Proofreading Checklist.
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Review for You: Subject and Object Pronouns
Mr. Griot reviews the definition of a pronoun and then reviews the differences between subject and object pronouns when used in a sentence.
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Personal Narrative: Transforming the Draft into the Final Copy
Mr. Griot works to revise, edit, and add details to a personal narrative. He then models writing the final copy of a personal narrative.
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Review for You: Subjects and Predicates
Mr. Griot will review both the subject and predicate of a sentence and help the student learn to identify each.
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Helping Verbs and Main Verbs
Mr. Griot provides information and examples of helping verbs and main verbs. He models how to identify verb phrases and helping verbs in sentences.
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Verbs of Being
Mr. Griot introduces the verb of being and shows examples in sentences.
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Action Verbs
Mr. Griot explains that a verb is an action word in a sentence and shows examples of verbs in sentences.
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Fragments, Run-ons, and Complete Sentences
Mr. Griot provides an overview of sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and complete sentences.
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Anyone Can Write Music
All musicians can and should write music, here's an exercise to help you get started
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Anyone Can Write Music
All musicians can and should write music, here's an exercise to help you get started
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End Punctuation
“End Punctuation” discusses the period, exclamation point, and question mark and explains when to use each type of end punctuation mark.
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Can Computers Really Talk? Or Are They Faking It?
New advancements in technology are making it harder than ever to tell the difference between a computer and a human speaker... but what's going on under the hood? Is it really "language," or just a digital illusion?
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Get Prepped for Prepositions
Mr. Griot teaches the student to identify prepositions and prepositional phrases and then practices the skill by playing a game.
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What’s the Word on Adverb Alley?
Mr. Griot visits Adverb Alley and interviews customers at a sports shop while he listens to their responses for adverbs in sentences.
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Can You Fix It?
Mr. Griot reviews complete sentences and shows how to identify and correct sentence fragments and run-on sentences. He then uses a game format to practice using these skills.
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Review for You: Sentences
Mr. Griot reviews complete sentences, fragments, and run-on sentences.
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Pronouns Everywhere! I Know Which Kind to Use!
Mr. Griot discusses subject, object, possessive, and relative pronouns. He then demonstrates the function and use of each in sentences.
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What Kind Is It, and How Does It End?
Mr. Griot explains the four types of sentences and their end marks of punctuation. He also points out some ways to identify each in when reading and writing.
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Review for You: Complete Sentences and Fragments
Mr. Griot reviews how to identify sentence fragments as opposed to a complete sentence. He also reviews finding the subject and predicates in a sentence as well as identifying the type of sentence if it is complete.
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One Thought or Two?
Mr. Griot teaches the elements of a simple sentence. He also explains the process of joining simple sentences with a coordinating conjunction to create a compound sentence.
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Seeing the Same with Synonyms
“Seeing the Same with Synonyms” demonstrates how to make writing more interesting and descriptive by using powerful words that mean the same as blander words.
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Conjunctions: Read, Combine, Revise
Mr. Griot describes the function of a coordinating conjunction and demonstrates for the student how to combine and correct sentences using a comma and coordinating conjunction.
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Airplanes and Clouds
Mr. Griot explains prepositions and prepositional phrases and gives hints about how to remember and identify them.