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A conversation between punctuation

Punctuation transcribe intonation

 giving life to the conversation.

Chatting! Chatting? Chatting. (Kids Cartoon) from Applelanche on Vimeo.


"A conversation between punctuation. 
A period, exclamation point and question mark
 demonstrate how they are used in conversation."

Letters, syllabes, words or sentences ?

What is the best way to learn to read?

Starting by letters, syllabes, words or sentences?

In fact, every way is valid.

They are part of the same puzzle.

If you start wit the sentences and look for the different words, syllabes o letters, it is like starting with a finished puzzle and undoing. Taking advantage of their first drawings or their favorite story, we ask them to explain it. Then we write an easy sentence on  a piece of paper. If we write two the same, we can cut one into words and play them. And so until we have the letters.





Welcome to Word World from WordWorld on Vimeo.


If you start with words it's like taking pieces of puzzle with something in common: its meaning. You can play with their favorite words writing every word in the pictures of their favorite objects or with WordWorld.



Y1 Syllables from QBSVimeo on Vimeo.

If you start with the syllabes it's like play with some pieces of the puzzle that fit by their pronunciation. Claping syllabes can be a fun way.




6.8.14 letters Export from Children's Museum of the Arts on Vimeo.

If you start with letters and make syllabes, words and then sentences, it's like starting with and unmade puzzle and putting together. Scrabble letters are very useful but you can write your own letters on pieces of card. Next, you can make words and then sentences.

You can start with any of them, 

and the result is the same:

 a reading adventure. 

Everyone thinks their method is the best

but there are many ways to be a good reader.

The most important thing is 

to believe in your learning possibilities.

Fact & Opinion

Discussing whether a statement is a fact or an opinion
can be essential to your right selection of information.
Reading and thinking,
 talking and listening,
 discussing and deciding.

In this video, first grade students 

are debating whether statements are facts or opinions.

BSRI Best Practices Series: First Grade "Facts & Opinions" Exercise
from Bay State Reading Institute on Vimeo.

"Why?" can be the best question
to sentences with logical explanation.

Through thought,
 you might be a person who anyone
 can't drive you like a drone.
                 Done!

Perspective in Palindrome

You can read a palindrome the same backward or forward.  
A palindrome attitude in your life 
can be an interesting perspective.
It is useful to read life in all directions.

More about       palíndromes  

Words connectors

You can invent your own stories 

when you know make sentences.

Just need to know the right connectors
 to link your ideas.

  Your story can have an introduction,
a plot and a conclusion for to be exciting.

Connectors are special words that join your sentences.

This animation can be used in conjunction initiation.

Conjunctions for grade 1 from turtlediary on Vimeo.


This interesting explanation may serve to expand.




Conjunctions from Brit on Vimeo.

You can search for conjunctions 

in the text of tales and fables

or in subtitles beatiful films like HUGH.

HUGH (english subtitles) - ESMA from Sylvain Nouveau on Vimeo.

Finally you can learn about
   connectors of time   
with the spider Spidy.

Paper game making sentences

Just  print and cut 
 and let's make sentences of
   THE SPECIAL SLED 

                                        

     Here's the full animation where

 you can find the phrases of the game.

THE SPECIAL SLED, consonants H, J, G from FLYKIT on Vimeo.

You can also print 

another model for easy first making.

You can play alone o with friends.

INDIVIDUAL GAME : First you train with the model.

The next time you do the phrases from memory or by logic.

GROUP PLAY : Distribute words for each.

Make sentences together. The winner is the first one ends.

You can also choose your favorite tale or an invented story.

This lovely video is an animation about first stories by a little girl

She's 3.5 years old and started to tell stories that will surprise.

Once upon a time.... from Rosa Lykiardopoulos on Vimeo.

Write and cut your own phrases could be funny.
Some adult can help you writing the words.

Making sentences is like play with puzzle pieces.

The sentences are made of words.

Words are made of vowels and consonants.

You can assemble and disassemble.

Grammatical & Visual

The visual memorization tricks
can help children with difficulty abstraction
and serve everybody in increasing motivation.

Our grammatical tour :

Basic parts of a sentence.

The subject is the main protagonist of the sentence.

You can find it by the question:  

    Who + verb ?  

The predicate is what is happening in the sentence.

You can usually find it by the question:   

    What do + subject + does ?  

This trip can be a memory trick. because the grammar learning

 is like traveling across a world of words.

The Beach Trip from FLYKIT on Vimeo.

One way to completing the sentences is by objects.

Objects are nouns with information about 

the subject of  the sentence.

Other objects are nouns that receive

 the action of the verb.

You can find more on  about.com

There are various sentence structures.

You can practice using the interesting 

diagrams on Grammar Revolution

You can play this game about

 how to make sentences by Cockie

Finally you have this music video about sentence grammar.

Subject and Predicate Video from Have Fun Teaching on Vimeo.

Connecting words

An animated lesson to teach about conjunctions.


Conjunction for grade 2 from turtlediary on Vimeo.

You can fly like this little bird 

in the world of words

 when using correctly

conjunctions to make sentences.

More about conjunctions:

  Primary Resources   

  Free Language Stuff  

Sentences about appearance

"The secret friend" is fun to play.
You must think of a sidekick.
You can describe it but you can not say his name.
When someone guess then he may be the next.

 People and appearance by LearnEnglishKids 

can teach you about phrases to describe in a funny game.