Using the Science Songs (MP3 Album), students learn about different science concepts while listening to these upbeat and catchy songs.
Using the Verb Rap Song (MP3), students will be able to define, give examples and use verbs in their own writing using the catchy and memorable lyrics.
Using the Noun Song (Lyric Music Video), students will be able to define, give examples and use adjectives in their own writing using the catchy and memorable lyrics.
Using the Verb Rap Song (Original Music Video), students will be able to define, give examples and use verbs in their own writing using the catchy and memorable lyrics.
Using the Adjective Song (MP3), students will be able to define, give examples and use adjectives in their own writing using the catchy and memorable lyrics.
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Using the Noun Song (MP3), students will be able to define, give examples and use nouns in their own writing using the catchy and memorable lyrics.
Using this Simile Song (Original Music Video), your students learn about how to use similes in order to bring emotion and feeling into their writing.
Using the Subject and Predicate Song (MP3), students will be able to define, give examples and use subjects and predicates in their own writing using the catchy and memorable lyrics.
Using this Simile Song (MP3), your students learn about how to use similes in order to bring emotion and feeling into their writing.
Fix it, polish it, make it shine
Grammar is the set of rules that makes writing clear. Young kids learn that a sentence is a complete thought that starts with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark. As they grow, they learn nouns, verbs, adjectives and pronouns, make subjects and verbs agree, and fix fragments and run-ons. By 3rd grade and up, kids edit their own writing for capitals, commas and spelling, and combine short sentences into stronger ones: Sam ran. Sam jumped. → Sam ran and jumped. The click is when kids start catching their own mistakes.
Grammar sticks when kids use it in real sentences. These are our go-to moves.
Write a sentence full of mistakes on the board and fix it out loud: "This sentence starts with a lowercase letter, so I need a capital." Then kids find and fix the rest with a partner. Hearing how a good editor thinks is half the lesson.
Why it works: showing first, practicing together, then letting kids try alone is the "gradual release" model teachers have relied on for decades (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withEditing Sentences WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Start each day with one broken sentence to fix in under three minutes. Rotate the mistakes: capitals Monday, punctuation Tuesday, and so on. Little daily practice keeps every rule fresh without a big grammar unit.
Why it works: spreading practice out over days is one of the two most effective study methods in a major research review (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withFixing Sentences WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Give kids two short, choppy sentences on strips and have them glue them together into one smooth sentence using and. Then try it with their own writing. Building sentences teaches grammar and makes writing sound better at the same time.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withCompound Predicates Sentences WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Grammar can be a game! These are kid favorites.
WorksheetsKids wear pretend badges and write tickets for every mistake they find in a silly paragraph.
Open Proofreading Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids describe a mystery object using only color, size and shape words while classmates guess it.
Open Adjectives Color Size Shape Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids catch every word that needs a capital letter, from names to holidays to the start of each sentence.
Open Correcting Capitalization Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Science Songs (MP3 Album), Verb Rap Song (MP3) and Noun Song (Lyric Music Video).
Elementary students learn complete sentences, capitalization, end punctuation and commas, parts of speech, subject-verb agreement, verb tenses and how to fix fragments and run-ons.
Teach grammar in real sentences instead of long lists of rules. Short daily editing practice, modeling corrections and having kids fix their own writing works much better than worksheets alone.
A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence that's missing a subject or a verb, or doesn't finish a thought. Ran to the store is a fragment, but She ran to the store is complete.
Read together and talk about why authors use capitals and punctuation. When your child writes, have them read it aloud. Kids often hear mistakes before they see them.
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