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Handout
English Plus+

English Plus: Commas in Addresses

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Site describes and identifies how and when to use the comma in letter writing. Examples provided.
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Handout
English Plus+

English Plus: Quotation Marks in Dialogue: Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site discusses how to use quotation marks with changes in speakers. It also looks at quotations longer than a single paragraph. Correct and incorrect examples are included.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Avoiding Comma Splices

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An interactive online quiz teaching about and correcting the use of comma splices in writing. A good tool for students to improve their writing skills.
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Unit Plan
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Semicolon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What is a semicolon and how do you use it in your writing? Check out this tutorial to learn more about this punctuation mark in English sentence structure.
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Handout
The Tongue Untied

The Tongue Untied: Colon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What is a colon and how is it used properly in your writing? This site gives examples of proper usage.
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Handout
The Tongue Untied

The Tongue Untied: Quotation Marks

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Learn more about using quotation marks properly through this informative resource. Students and teachers will benefit from this helpful site.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Review of Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Handout
Grammar Tips

Grammar and Usage for the Non Expert: Using Commas With Dates

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This grammar page begins with examples of how to punctuate dates, then provides the rules that govern those examples.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Puns and Punctuation

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A Writer's Workshop idea in which students learn to use and punctuate adverbs and specific dialogue to create puns called Tom Swifties. Teacher instructions, student instructions, and student writing samples are provided, as well as an...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Just the Facts, Ma'am: Voice an Original Mystery

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, young scholars will create a narrative with dialogue based on a particular voice.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Dialogue Adventures

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will learn how to write dialogue in a particular voice.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: What's Your Fifth Element?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson learners will write persuasively in regards to a 21st century object.
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Unit Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Corresponding Punctuation Marks [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
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...
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Handout
The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Comma Rules

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this site for recognizing when to use commas. Includes examples.
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Handout
ACT360 Media

Writing Tips: Sentence Builder Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of the major elements of punctuation in the English language, including the period, question mark, exclamation mark, comma, apostrophe, quotation marks, colon, semicolon, dash, and hyphen. Provides a brief description and the...
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 2: Finding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Recognize comma splices and fused sentences by clicking on the error in 20 sentences.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 3: Finding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Recognize comma splices and fused sentences by clicking on the error in 20 sentences.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 4: Finding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Choose the best way to correct sentences errors identified in 20 sentences.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 5: Finding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Choose the best way to correct sentences errors identified in 20 sentences.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Apostrophes: Exercise 1

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Practice apostrophe usage by deciding if the apostrophe in each of these 20 sentences is used correctly.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Apostrophes: Exercise 2

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Practice apostrophe usage by deciding if the apostrophes in each of these 20 sentences are used correctly.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Apostrophes: Exercise 3

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Practice apostrophe usage by deciding if the apostrophes in each of these 20 sentences are used correctly.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Apostrophes: Exercise 4

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Practice apostrophe usage typing the possessive word that replaces the underlined phrase in each of 20 sentences.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Apostrophes: Exercise 5

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Practice apostrophe usage typing the possessive word that replaces the underlined phrase in each of 20 sentences.