PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Hyphenation Conventions
This video [0:48) discusses how hyphens indicate specific nouns from compound words. Without them, they could refer to completely different things! Know when and how to use them.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Forming and Using Possessive Nouns
Possessives show when a noun belongs to someone. It is often indicated with an apostrophe "s", but when words end in "s" only an apostrophe is added.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Salutations, Valedictions, Dates, and Addresses
Commas are needed when starting or ending a letter/email, writing out dates, or writing out addresses.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Three Ways to End a Sentence
There are three types of terminal punctuation: a period, an exclamation point, and a question mark.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Looking at Writing: Second Grade
In this section, you'll find writing assessment resources, writing strategies, and additional tip sheets for teachers and parents on how to help second graders build strong writing skills. You'll also find videos on teaching writing....
ABCya
Ab Cya: Keyboarding Zoo 2
The keyboarding zoo is back! This fun and educational activity will focus on uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as typing words and making short sentences using the period key and spacebar.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing Fix's List of Prepositions [Pdf]
This is a PDF providing a handout with an extensive list of prepositions.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Let's Read It!
Five mini-lessons to help young writers develop their writing skills within a Writers Workshop model.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Commas
This site offers links to five interactive practices using commas and accompanying handouts. Adobe Reader is required.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Writing Repeater
Use the mouse to write words and then save them into word lists.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Meet the Vikings [Pdf]
Practice capitalization rules by underlining the words that need to be capitalized and matching them to the rules that apply.
English Plus+
English Plus: Format for a Friendly or Personal Letter
See the proper form of writing a friendly letter including spacing and content.
Courseware Solutions
Wordville: Commas: A Fun Way for Kids to Practice Using Commas
In this activity, students add commas as needed to friendly letters. As they click where the commas belong a dragonfly or a butterfly inserts the commas.
Quia
Quia: Possessive Nouns: Rags to Riches
Take this short quiz to test your knowledge of possessive nouns. Immediate feedback is provided.
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Google
Using Commas in Sentences [Pdf]
Students write their own sentences that each includes a series of words to punctuate correctly.
Other
Possessive Nouns Rules and Practice
Use these handy rules to help how to create a possessive form.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Possesives Examples
Resource provides an explanation and examples of possessive nouns.
Other
Quill: Capitalize Geographic Names
A ten question capitalization quiz where students have to type the sentence with the proper nouns correctly capitalized.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Punctuation
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces students to punctuation and focuses on question marks and periods at the ends of sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Second Grade Daily Oral Language
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will demonstrate their ability to find and correct: grammar errors, capitalization errors, and punctuation errors.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Silent Letters
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will investigate, read and spell words with silent letters.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Words Ending in Le
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will investigate and learn to use the spelling pattern le.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Apostrophe Contractions
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use the apostrophe to create contractions (e.g. don't, can't)
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
[Free Registration/Login Required] Beginning of year - Letter introduction with review of story, its elements, rote counting and numeral writing.