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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Capitalization

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn about the conventions of capitalization. This lesson will help remind you to separate texting, where capitalization is optional, from academic writing, which is governed by a specific set of rules.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Grammar Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a grammar handbook with links to grammar rules for the parts of speech, punctuation marks, mechanics, sentence style and clarity, composition, academic writing, organization and development, revising and editing, and research and...
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Other

Tameri: Guide for Writers: Punctuation Rules

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
This site provides the punctuation rules.
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Website
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 13.1: Common Errors in Grammar and Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples that teach how to identify and correct errors in subject/verb agreement, comma splices, sentence fragments, capitalization of titles and...
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Website
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 11.1: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples that demonstrate how to identify and correctly use commas with coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, and introductory...
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Harvard University

Harvard Writing Center: Tips on Grammar, Punctuation and Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rather than lists of rules, this site provides practical advice on the use of commas, semicolons, dashes, hyphens, abbreviations, acronyms, split infinitives, "this," "that," italics, and underlining. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
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English Club

English Club: Punctuation Marks

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub tutorial provides a comprehensive chart of punctuation marks and their respective purposes. Examples of the punctuation marks used in context are also provided.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Writing Lab: Brief Overview of Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson provides a brief overview of semicolons, colons, parentheses, dashes, quotation marks, italics, and underlining.
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Capitalization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has a clear and concise list of capitalization rules.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How to Use the Correct Capitalization

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Capitalizing is extremely important. Not only is it proper writing, but it also makes writing look polished and finished. Learn what should be capitalized and what shouldn't! [0:53]
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English Plus+

Capitalizing Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides information on capitalizing sentences. Examples are given.
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English Plus+

Special Cases for Capitals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides explanation and examples of special rules for capitalization.
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English Plus+

Capitalizing in Letters

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page gives information and examples about capital letters in letters.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Diagramming Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A complete guide from the Capital Community College to diagramming grammar sentences.
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English Plus+

English Plus: Grammar Slammar!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An easy-to-use grammar resource containing rules for style, usage, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, and letter writing. This site also includes a glossary of common grammatical mistakes.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Capitalization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you scroll down to the middle of the page, you will find a section that explains the rules for capitalizing people's titles and the names of political entities.
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Towson University

Towson University: Commonly Confused Words: Then and Than

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry explains the difference in meaning and usage of the words "then" and "than," gives examples of each, and provides a link to a page of practice exercises.
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Other

Stage Door: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains examples of when and how to properly use punctuation marks, including: abbreviations, metric symbols, money, titles and corporate names.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Punctuate!

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Click on the two cards to match each punctuation mark with one of its usage rules.
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Activity
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Writing Practice: Plurals and Possessives

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Write a sentence containing each of the twenty-four plural and possessive words listed. When finished, create a PDF of the sentences to print and share.
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IQ Site

Iq Study Activities: Language Arts Review 1

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Students practice spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and usage skills by choosing the correctly written phrase for the underlined section in twenty-five sentences. Keep score as you go along and see your final score at the end of the...
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English Club

English Club: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub tutorial explains what punctuation marks are, what punctuation marks do, and why punctuation marks are important. Links to supplemental songs and videos about punctuation are also provided.
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Application Magazine

Aplicaciones: Ortografia Interactiva De Mayusculas

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Which word should be capitalized? Here you will find twelve different exercises so you can test your knowledge
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Capitalization: Lesson 7

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces capitalization. It is 7 of 10 in the series titled "Capitalization."