Reading/LA

Watch this set of eight videos by ProLiteracy to learn how to write a great extended response. After you click on the link, scroll down the page to find the videos.

https://proliteracy.org/Resources/Blog/Article/249

RLA Extended Response Tutorial Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQbqBJYaTyI

An Intro to ethos pathos logos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_G82HH9Tg

Ethos pathos logos by Khan Academy (14 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt_udRiOm_8

Grammar:

Introduction to Basic Sentence Structure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F03w-vOV-xw

Introduction to Simple and Compound Sentences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISA7oz6WFjE

Interactive Practice: Sentence Structure and Simple/Compound Sentences:

Parts of a Sentence Quiz

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=parts-of-the-sentence-quiz

Name the Sentence

https://www.quia.com/rr/115170.html

Possessive Nouns and the Use of the Apostrophe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dY2SE1G900&list=PLF9oQ5ATEQb1fYdlYlN_CjHYtbxiiz_sA

Excellent powerpoint lesson on possessive case of both singular and plural nouns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHbc32U9Y4M

How to Use a Semicolon

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon

Clauses (Independent/Dependent; Relative ...)

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/syntax-sentences-and-clauses/phrases-and-clauses/v/phrases-and-clauses-syntax-khan-academy

Run-ons and comma splices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQfJdhyeQfU

Parallel Structure of Sentences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvDNvS2M3QA

Amusing Videos (9) to help you with your writing skills in the following areas:

Using apostrophes Nouns Interjections Misplaced/Dangling Modifiers Plagiarizing

Verbs Direct Objects Indirect Objects Subject Complements

http://www.chompchomp.com/videos.htm

Verb tense

Introduction to Verb Tense Video - Kahn Academy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faUvT7zfsyk

Introduction to Irregular Verbs Video - Kahn Academy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKr--3HpP_A

Homophones:

Introduction to Homophones Slide Share:

https://www.slideshare.net/taralockhart33/homophones-52723871

Homophone Video (Short and Sweet!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OwX6tjOztY

Homophone Quiz

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/language_arts/homophone/quiz1666.html

Homophone Machine

This is fun! Enter your sentence containing homophones, and then "convert" your sentence to another (really funny!) sentence!

http://homophonemachine.allaboutlearningpress.com/

here's a full-of--pictures slide share:

https://www.slideshare.net/Duermeyerb/homophones-powerpoint?next_slideshow=1

Homophone vs Homonyms:

How They Differ (especially good for native Spanish speakers)-

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Homonym_vs_Homophone

Inferences

Introduction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to30AJm2epQ

Making Inferences in Informational Text - Kahn Academy (good explanation and examples:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUW2jit3uvo

Interactive Practice:

https://www.quia.com/rr/332704.html

"We Will Infer Rock You!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6O_d21GglE

Drawing Conclusions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_S1pkkN81s

Aesop's fables - Draw Conclusions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9moHkCfLRgY

Main Idea

Introductory video showing main idea and detail examples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o4DZQjCH2Q

Identifying Topic and Main Idea - Mometrix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThskMeB1e5s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42SJTk2XSi4

great sleuthing exercise - disappearing man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5_l98pF_yw

aesop's theme,morals, main ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwIGOfWRKpw

Misplaced Modifiers

Misplaced Modifiers Part One - Smart English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y088_oOZwCo

Misplaced Modifiers Part Two - Smart English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsKJ_is_cjw

Misplaced Modifier Quiz

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/misplaced_modifiers/quiz4690.html

Paraphrasing

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/976/02/

Plot

Introduction to Plot Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIC2ZBF3-QA

Video explaining the six elements of plot in fiction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7tD4VR2FWA

PUNCTUATION:

semicolons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th-zyfvwDdI

how to use a semicolon:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon

Intro to semicolon: Khan academy (2:38)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?=41XNvKfR560Y

Sequencing (text structure)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpD4lcbeSJo

Similes and Metaphors:

Introduction (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoSBVNUO2LU

Examples in Songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKEypTnFYLQ

Interactive Practice

https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-4/identify-similes-and-metaphors

Subject-Verb Agreement

Introductory video to subject-verb agreement from Smart English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKm98TVFTQ4

Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz (Soft Schools) - Test Your Knowledge!

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/subject_verb_agreement/quiz2856.html

Subject-Verb Agreement Quia Practice Quiz - Good Luck!

https://www.quia.com/quiz/281066.html

Quia Game Indefinite Pronouns

https://www.quia.com/quiz/281066.html

IXL – Practicing Subject-Verb Agreement

https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-7/correct-errors-with-subject-verb-agreement

PRONOUN- ANCEDENT AGREEMENT -- Khan Academy

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pronoun+antecedent+agreement

Text Structure

Video on the five text structures: sequential, compare and contrast, problem and solution, cause and effect and description

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kWGQ-_ipBY

Text Structure: Problem and Solution and Cause and Effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEEXvMPMU2k

Text Structure: Sequence and Description

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpD4lcbeSJo&t=4s

Text Structure: Compare and Contrast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZL0yEeUac

Theme

Introductory Video on Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qpis2X8OAA

Theme well explained (also explains the difference between theme and plot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSPO194N0OU

Tone and Mood:

Instructional Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwX10tYIkWM&spfreload=10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mW2VTUOSWs

Compare and Contrast: Tone and Mood

Original Mary Poppins Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWf9fP-A-U

Scary Mary Trailer: https://www.google.com/search?q=scary+mary+poppins&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS819US819&oq=Scary+Mary+&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j0l3j69i61.6781j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on

Word Denotation and Connotation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ISLY8-flQ