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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 2: Their, There, and They're

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Complete these 20 sentences by typing the correct form of their, there, and they're.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 10: Whose and Who's

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Test your understanding of the words "whose and "who's" by typing the word that best completes each of the twenty sentences. Immediate feedback on answers is provided and a percentage score is tallied throughout the quiz.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 14: Its and It's

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Test your understanding of the words "its" and "it's" by typing the word that best completes each of the twenty sentences. Immediate feedback on answers is provided and a percentage score is tallied throughout the quiz.
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Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Scramble Saurus

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Find more than a dozen spelling games to reinforce vocabulary on a range of levels and topics (from musical instruments to climate terms). Players unscramble words using definitions as clues.
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Handout
Fact Monster

Fact Monster: Spelling Plural Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A chart that shows general rules for regular and irregular plural formations for nouns, plus a list of some exceptions.
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Interactive
Quia

Ixl Learning: Identify Abstract Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Practice identifying abstract nouns.
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Website
Other

Kid Info: Capitalization Sites

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This grammar site includes three links to sites about capitalization. They include: "Capitalization Basic Rules, Capitalization Matching Game and Capitalization Rules."
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Handout
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tutorial explains proper sentence structure.
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Handout
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Capitalization

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students learn when to use capitalization in their writing.
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Handout
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Adjectives and Adverbs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial explores the difference between adjectives and adverbs so you can use them properly.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: How to Capitalize Titles | No Nonsense Grammar

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Capitalizing titles of books, movies, etc. can be tricky at first glance, but is easy to figure out. Remember to capitalize the first word, last word, and any important words within the title.
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Lesson Plan
Success Link

Success Link: Descriptive Writing Mittens

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Use this lesson plan to teach descriptive writing. A checklist is provided so students can self-monitor their writing.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Notorious Confusables

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This 12 question quiz covers commonly confused words such as than/then, it's/its, and whether/weather. Links are provided to more quizzes and the "Guide to Grammar and Writing."
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.3.4: Produce Writing Appropriate to Task and Purpose

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to 99 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.4: With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: L.3.2a: Capitalize Appropriate Words in Tites

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to a lesson that builds student skills in standard L.3.2a: Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
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Activity
BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Plurals and Spelling Rules

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
The rules for spelling plural words and using them properly in English are made fun and easy with this BBC Skillswise worksheet for students.
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Handout
Other

K12 Reader: Possessive Nouns

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Take a look at examples of possessive nouns, both singular and plural.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Variant Correspondences: The Write Word [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game moving around the game board by identifying the spelling pattern of words. Materials are included.
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Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Spell Check

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Students are presented with four words. After choosing the incorrectly spelled word, students make corrections and check their answers. There is an option for more difficult words.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Vocabulary Web

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders learn how to make a vocabulary word web.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Proper Noun Race

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
During this lesson, students will review nouns and identify common and proper nouns in context. A short story will be written using both types of nouns. An interactive Internet site will be used to reinforce the lesson.
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Unit Plan
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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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Common and Proper Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn to distinguish common and proper nouns from one another!
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Proper Nouns (Days and Months)

For Teachers 3rd Standards
This is better for a "small group" lesson plan. Students will demonstrate understanding of proper nouns and know that days of the week and months of the year are always capitalized.