The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the complete sentences, compound sentences, sentence fragments and run-on sentences. The accompanying handout provides practice on identifying and correcting sentence fragments.
The resource offers video lessons on the three of the writing traits at the grade 3 level, using the resource "Write Traits Student Traitbook" Grade 3, by V. Spandel and J. Hicks.
The traits covered include:
- organization
- word choice
- sentence fluency
The resource offers video lessons on the four of the writing traits at the grade 4 level, using the resource "Write Traits Student Traitbook" Grade 4, by V. Spandel and J. Hicks. The traits covered include: - ideas - organization - sentence fluency - word choice
The resource offers multiple video lessons for each of the writing traits at the grade 6 level, using the resource "Write Traits Student Traitbook" Grade 6, by V. Spandel and J. Hicks.
The traits include:
- ideas
- organization
- word choice
- sentence fluency
- voice
- conventions and presentation are embedded throughout the unit lessons
Students build a world of their own by answering curriculum aligned questions covering thousands of skill strands. Reading, writing, rhyming and phonetics are included.
Educators get free full access. Parents can work collaboratively with their child's teacher for access or purchase home memberships.
Quill.org is an online interactive writing and grammar website which offers personalized grammar lessons for 1-12 students, as well as EAL students. Quill.org is a free resource with a premium option. The benefits of this website are that you can offer your students personalized lessons based on their diagnostic results and it scores the assignments for you so you can use that as formative feedback to assign new activity packs. Teachers are able to see their entire class at a glance for each assignment and adding and removing students is very easy. It offers co teaching options and Quill.org also has fully prepared lesson plans which you can use for a whole class grammar lesson.
*Teachers can download explicit lesson plans to teach their entire class or small groups as well.
Quill now has a proofreader that teaches editing skills by having them proofread passages!
Categories include: Connect (learn to write well structured sentences); Lessons; Diagnostic; Proofreader; Grammar; Reading for Evidence (teach comprehension skills)