Sample Video Lessons
Check out how animated shorts can tie into grammar with these three videos. This post contains samples of teaching conjunctions. To get the full free lessons and Google Slides, download the preview.
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Teaching Grammar with Animated Shorts – Short Film #1 – Three Fools
Turn the bold sentences into complex sentences.
Blue, Yellow, and Green hike across a desert wasteland, searching for a new home. They are attracted to small areas with grass.
Green spots a large green valley with tall trees and flowers. The three friends race down the hill through the forest to a scenic beach. Blue and Yellow stake claims to leave no space for Green. Green turns and walks away.
Soon, Blue and Yellow cut down trees to build huts on the beach. Meanwhile, Green moves to a grassy area and takes care of plants by watering the flowers. He also befriends a seagull. Blue and Yellow become greedy. They realize their huts are identical.
Sample Answer
Blue and Yellow become greedy when they realize their huts are identical.
Complete the sentences with correlative conjunctions.
1.Blue and Yellow are neither polite ___ hospitable.
- or
- nor
- not
- yet
Teaching Grammar with Animated Shorts – Short Film #2 – Robby
Turn the bold sentences into compound or complex sentences.
An earthworm tunnels through the ground using a pick. After he realizes he needs a bigger tool for his job, the earthworm reaches into his small pack and pulls out a demolition jackhammer. After more tunneling, the jackhammer loses its battery power and stops.
The earthworm pulls out a compass to determine his location. The compass wiggles and breaks.
The earthworm pulls out a small hand crank to chisel upward. Rocks fall on the earthworm’s head.
Next, the earthworm reaches back into his small pack and pulls out an excavator. He shovels scoopfuls of dirt and rock, but the scoop gets lodged between rocks.
Sample Answer
He shovels scoopfuls of dirt and rock until the scoop gets lodged between rocks.
Complete the sentences with correlative conjunctions.
- The digging was ___ very long ____ difficult.
- not / but
- both / and
- whether / or
- scarcely / when
Tornado VR Experience
Combine these short choppy sentences by using coordinating, subordinating, or correlative conjunctions.
1 . For a hurricane to form, two air masses must meet. You need warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. You also need dry air from Canada.
Sample Answer
For a hurricane to form, two air masses must meet, including warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and dry air from Canada.
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What’s Included:
- Video Lesson with Accompanying Organizer – Have students watch the instructional video that goes with the organizer. Pause the video when instructed to do so. Have students complete the organizer. Next, have students watch the remainder of the video to check their answers.
- Animated Short Activities—Each lesson contains 3+ videos (a total of 23) with practice connected to both the skill covered and the animated short.
- Practice Game—Each lesson contains a game. Most games have practice sentences that can be used as seatwork in place of a game activity if desired.
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- Sorry
- Bump
- Dice Game
- Task Cards with Board Game
- Aggravation
- Dots & Boxes + Tic Tac Toe
The 5th Grade Grammar Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1.A
Explain the function of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in general and their function in particular sentences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1.B
Form and use the perfect (e.g., I had walked; I have walked; I will have walked) verb tenses.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1.C
Use verb tense to convey various times, sequences, states, and conditions.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1.D
Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*
Use correlative conjunctions (e.g., either/or, neither/nor).
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