The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Punctuation
This site features a punctuation practice exercise. Students have an opportunity to test their punctuation knowledge when they visit this interactive resource.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz in Punctuation
It this interactive punctuation quiz, students read sentences or passages and insert the necessary punctuation and capitalization. After each answer, students select "Grammar's Version" to reveal the corrected passage and an explanation....
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz in Punctuation
In this interactive grammar quiz, students are asked to read a paragraph and insert the correct punctuation, capitalization, and corrected spellings. When finished, they click on "Grammar's Version" for the corrected paragraph with...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Review of Punctuation
Students will choose which, if any, of a list of sentences is punctuated correctly or incorrectly. When students select an answer, a pop-up box appears with feedback including the answer and explanation. Java is required.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Notorious Confusables #3
Students read sentences looking at the two words in all caps, including spelling. They must decide what, if anything, needs to be changed, and select the correct answer. Links are also provided to a tutorial, quizzes, and "Guide to...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Exclamation Mark
This site from the Capital Community College contains information regarding the use and misuse of the exclamation mark, along with examples.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Question Mark
This site from the Capital Community College contains information regarding the correct and incorrect usage of the question mark. Includes some examples.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Numbers, Writing Lists
A lengthy page of rules regarding how to use numbers in writing, as well as how to write lists. Very helpful.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Spelling Ie/ei Rules Exercises
A very good reference for spelling that outlines the rules for EI/IE and the exceptions, and provides exercises for understanding. L.11-12.2b Spelling
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Punctuation
This site offers a list of links to punctuation exercises/quizzes including commas, semicolons, quotation marks, apostrophes, and italics.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Commonly Confused Words: Two, To, Too
This entry focuses on the commonly confused words two, to, and too including providing an explanation, examples, and a link to quizzes/exercises. L.11-12.2b Spelling
Towson University
Towson University: Commonly Confused Words: Were / We're / Where
This entry focuses on the commonly confused words were, we're, and where including providing an explanation, examples, and a link to quizzes/exercises.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Corresponding Punctuation Marks [Pdf]
In Robin Pulver's Punctuation Takes a Vacation students will see the value of punctuation and how it is necessary to use in writing. For younger students, use this book as supplemental reading material before beginning this lesson on...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Apostrophes: Exercise 4
Practice apostrophe usage typing the possessive word that replaces the underlined phrase in each of 20 sentences.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Apostrophes: Exercise 5
Practice apostrophe usage typing the possessive word that replaces the underlined phrase in each of 20 sentences.
English Club
English Club: When Do We Use Capital Letters
This EnglishClub resource provides eleven instances in which using capital letters is necessary. Several examples are provided with each of the eleven rules.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Ei/ie Spelling Rules Exercise 2
This resource provides practice for spelling words correctly that contain ie or ei in them.
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Games: Amazing Spelling Fleas
Practice and play five games that build language skills like recognizing parts of speech, connecting images and words, spelling and completing words, and understanding simple sentences.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Italics and Underlining: Foreign Words
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing foreign words in a sentence.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Introduction and Conclusion
Explanations and examples of writing introductions and conclusions.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: The End
A list of text requirements that may be necessary after the conclusion of a research paper.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The King's English: Punctuation
This is the Punctuation chapter from H.W. Fowler's The King?s English, 2nd ed. (1908), which provides the rules of use for British English punctuation in the early 20th century. Many of these rules still apply.
Quia
Quia: Punctuation Commas and End Marks
Play Hangman as you recall the basic types of sentences and punctuation marks. Great fun!