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- Flip the Classroom: Writing: Links to Sites for the STAAR test
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Right Click on the link (in blue) and select "Open Hyperlink" to view OR double click on the link (in blue)
1. YouTube Video on Irregular Verbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov2v50af7bo
2. YouTube Videos on Homophones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G45RQ5b4W78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hjOSZ9FFSI
3. YouTube Video on Adverbs: Students: Pay close attention to the list at the end. You will see the word “well” from one of our latest revise and edit practices:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQPDk_fMcs0
4. Schoolhouse Rock Video on Subjects and Predicates
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdUXxdmhIsw
5. Schoolhouse Rock Video on Conjunctions (Students: This also includes either/or and neither/nor!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AyjKgz9tKg
6. YouTube Video on Prepositions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byszemY8Pl8
7. YouTube Video on Similes and Metaphors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoSBVNUO2LU&feature=youtu.be
8. YouTube Video on Sentence Fragments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dfmg6EsaRs
9. Simple, Compound (joined by a conjunction!), and Complex Sentences
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvhC0eSIb3g
10. Contractions Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mQ9uLEWfcY
11. The Comma Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAb3WpMELZ0
12. Quotation Marks Song13. How to make nouns plural:Regular and Irregularhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6yjcZkj5UY
14. Different ways to spell the "sh" soundhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XCn4QZ9rpc
15. Silent letters at beginning of words: "K"n "W"r "G"n16: Expository Writing Sites:Expository writing song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdBYH7LN6kI
How to write an introduction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSS2_zSB6Ok
How to write topic sentences:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2nOzN6DllY
How to write a conclusion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvs9IpA5O2s
17. Personal Narrative Writing Videos:
This video gives instructions and helpful tips on how to complete the personal narrative essay assignmenthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6xCTeMyZjc
18. WritingHooks for Narrative Essays
19. Run-on Sentences and Coordinating Conjunctions (FANBOYS)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ARqUdCkdg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkfcG-VpqRo
20. Possessive Pronouns and It's versus Its:21. Adjectives22. Nouns23. Pronouns