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Use this free song and video to teach your students verbs

A Fun Song for Teaching Your Students Verbs

Grammar, Teaching WritingBy Hannah BraunOctober 2, 2016

  I’ve got a new parts of speech video to share with you today and this time it’s about verbs! I love to practice songs like this one and my noun song during those extra two to five minute chunks of time that pop up now and then.        Help your students remember…

Use this free song and video to teach students about nouns, great for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade!

A Fun Song to Teach Your Students Nouns

Grammar, Teaching WritingBy Hannah BraunSeptember 5, 20162 Comments

Kids love music and it’s so helpful for memorization! I’ve written before about using music for learning parts of speech here and here. I’ve had a few people say that they wish they could hear the songs instead of just seeing them on a chart. I’ve been getting my feet wet with video lately and…

Ugly Christmas Sweater Contractions FREEBIE

Grammar, Teaching WritingBy Hannah BraunDecember 13, 2015

With winter break quickly approaching, if you can keep your class from turning into all out chaos, you’re doing good.  If you actually work in some academic content…well, you deserve something special from Santa ; )  I’ve got an ugly Christmas sweater contractions freebie to help you out.  Students take words from two balls of…

An easy song to help your students learn to identify adjectives, the fun way to teach part of speech! Great for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade

Confessions of a Teacher: I Sing Cheesy Songs Part 2

Grammar, Teaching WritingBy Hannah BraunFebruary 2, 201511 Comments

This is the second part of a mini series about songs for teaching parts of speech.  If you missed the first post about nouns and verbs, you can find it here. Click on any picture to print off a copy for yourself from Google Docs! Sing The Adjective Song to the tune of The Itsy…

Confessions of a Teacher: I Sing Cheesy Songs- Part 1

Grammar, Teaching WritingBy Hannah BraunJanuary 28, 20158 Comments

Take a G and an E and O, And add a little R-G-E, To a W-A-S-H, I…N…G If you add 2,000 pounds, That makes a ton, So what have you got? You’ve got a lot! George Washington! This is part of a silly song I remember from way back in 5th grade when we were…

Free Charts that Teach Apostrophes and Commas

Grammar, Teaching WritingBy Hannah BraunJanuary 19, 2015

“Mrs. Braun, you know that mark, it’s like a curve, I can’t remember what it’s called, but do I need to use one here?” When kids get to second grade and they’re exposed to contractions, possessives, writing lists, dates, and more, they start to get really bamboozled about the difference between commas and apostrophes. They…

recipe for a sentence anchor chart

Recipe for a Sentence Anchor Chart

Grammar, Teaching WritingBy Hannah BraunDecember 8, 2014

I used this Recipe for a Sentence anchor chart to introduce my 2nd graders to the concept of subject and predicate.  To make it a little more “kid-friendly,” we called the subject the naming part of the sentence.  It names who or what the sentence is about.  The predicate is the telling part of the…

Ugly Christmas Sweater Contractions FREEBIE

Grammar, Teaching WritingBy Hannah BraunDecember 2, 20141 Comment

If you were in elementary school in the 1980s and 90s like I was, you’ve probably seen your fair share of holiday sweaters on teachers.  Kids today shouldn’t miss out on holiday sweaters just because teachers have moved on to more fashionable apparel…haha!  So here is some fun contraction practice perfect for the weeks before…

How to Teach Parts of Speech - activities and ideas for teaching nouns, verbs, adjectives and more in the elementary classroom for better grammar and writing

How to Teach Parts of Speech So They Stick

Grammar, Teaching WritingBy Hannah BraunMay 19, 20142 Comments

Inside: Find out how to teach parts of speech so that kids remember what they have learned! I’m sharing my favorite ideas and activities.     You’ve talked about pronouns for several weeks. You’ve given homework and review. You’re in the middle of your pronoun assessment and a student raises their hand and asks “What’s a…

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