Sunday, January 25, 2015

Week of Jan. 26-Jan. 30

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Monday: Taking Notes
1. Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAhRf3U50lM

I will come up with something this week for you to practice this skill. It's important to know how to do.

Tuesday: Subject-Verb Agreement
1. Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0emlVxINBUk
2. Take this quiz:
http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/subject_verb_agreement/quiz2181.html

Wednesday: Using Lay-Lie, Set-Sit, and Raise-Rise
1. Read over this: 
http://wps.ablongman.com/long_longman_ohb_1/27/7023/1797945.cw/content/index.html
2. Try this:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/lie_lay_quiz.htm


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Monday: Helping Verbs and Verb Phrases
1. Watch this exciting video ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbNKPA0ubEM
2. Then watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a22nqBuFltk
3. Try this:
http://www.quia.com/quiz/171707.html?AP_rand=2145941781

Tuesday: Subject and Verb Agreement

1. Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0emlVxINBUk
2. Take this quiz:
http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/subject_verb_agreement/quiz2181.html

Wednesday: Principal Parts of Verbs
1. Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QAt5bQfuMk
2. Read this:
http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000357.htm
3. Write the Principal Parts of the following common verbs:
awake
break
forget
give
hang
keep
cost
cut
dig
eat

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Week of January 19-23

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Monday: Possessive Nouns
1. Read this:
http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/nouns/Possessive-Nouns.html
2. Take this quiz:
http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/possessive_nouns/quiz327.html

Wednesday: Principal Parts of Verbs
1. Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QAt5bQfuMk
2. Read this:
http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000357.htm
3. Write the Principal Parts of the following common verbs:
awake
break
forget
give
hang
keep
cost
cut
dig
eat

Friday: Simple Verb Tense
1. Read this:
There are three main verb tenses; past, present and future. Each tense is divided into; simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous. In this lesson we are looking at the simple tenses in the past, present and future. The present tense of a verb is the 'original' form.
2. Read and try this:
http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/simple-tenses-verbs
3. Do this:
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/mixed-verb-tenses5.html



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Monday: Nouns of Direct Address and Appositives
1. Read this:
A direct address is the name of the person (normally) who is being directly spoken to. It is always a proper noun. It does not have any grammatical relationship to any part of the sentence. It is set off by commas.
2. Read this:
http://www.softschools.com/examples/grammar/nouns_of_direct_address_examples/59/
3. Read this:
An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words. Look at these examples: The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table.
3. Do this worksheet: Write the answers on paper. Don't scroll down to the answers!
http://www.k12reader.com/worksheet/add-an-appositive/view/

Wednesday: Verbs
1. Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US8mGU1MzYw
2. Go to this worksheet and write the answers on paper.
http://www.kidslearningstation.com/grammar/verbs/3rd-grade/worksheets/third-grade-verb-worksheet-sentences2.pdf 

Friday: Verb - be
1. Go here and do this worksheet: Again, no cheating and write on paper
http://www.k12reader.com/worksheet/to-be-verbs/view/

Week of January 12-16

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Monday: Simple & Compound Sentences
1. Go to this link:
http://blogs.scholastic.com/files/simple-and-compound-sentences-1.pdf
Write your answers on paper

Wednesday: Complex Sentences
1. Watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uxCOFY5xMw
2. Write 10 examples of complex sentences

Friday: Concrete vs. abstract nouns
1. Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA76Wa7uUxw
2. Do the quiz on this link:
http://www.quia.com/quiz/799988.html

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Monday: Nouns
1. Watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfnXUWJz0sE
and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rIJ9w4UVJM
2. Do this practice:
http://english-zone.com/grammar/find-a-noun1.html
3. Do this quiz:
http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/noun/quiz295.html

Wednesday: Singular & Plural nouns
1. Go here:
http://www.talkenglish.com/Grammar/singular-plural-nouns.aspx
2. Play this game. Choose "complex" as the level.
http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/games/singular_plural_nouns.jsp

Friday: Possessive Nouns
1. Read this:
http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/nouns/Possessive-Nouns.html
2. Take this quiz:
http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/possessive_nouns/quiz327.html