Writing

I created this program to generate unlimited opportunities to create sentences using names, nouns, adjectives, and verbs.  Just click the "Regenerate" button and new names, nouns, adjectives, and verbs will be generated.  Students then have to come up with a sentence that uses all of the words.  I also added a variable to the mix.  It causes students to also add parts to their sentences like setting, emotions, tense, singular vs. plural, figurative language concepts, rhymes, and prefixes/suffixes.  I usually play if I find 10 minutes at the end of a writing time.

In this scrambled sentences vocabulary worksheet activity, students will rearrange the sentence so that it makes sense.  Each sentence is broken down into three pieces.  The vocab I am hitting in this reading center activity is, effect, clock, quarter, cause, prepare, description, culture, time, process, and glared.

When students are finished they will then go through each sentence and circle all the verbs they can find.

This is a song and video that demonstrates how an adjective describes a noun.

This Youtube video demonstrates what similes and metaphors are via a song and superheroes.

This video uses songs and video clips that demonstrate the following literary devices: Alliteration, Foreshadowing, Hyperbole, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Simile. 

This is a great song to help instruct and review the alphabet with kindergarten students.

This is a fun song to help introduce the five W's (Who, What, Where, When, and Why) to younger students.

This is a quick, fun video to help introduce or review basic punctuation for kids.  The song is sung by LL Cool J.

This is a great video to introduce prefixes and suffixes to primary students.

This is a great short clip to help introduce or practice compare and contrast with primary students.