ACT360 Media
Writing Tips: Sentence Builder: Apostrophe
A brief description of the rules, usage, and examples of the "apostrophe" in English punctuation.
ACT360 Media
Writing Tips: Sentence Builder: Quotation Marks
A brief description of the rules, usage, and examples of "quotation marks" in English punctuation.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Periods, Question Marks & Exclamation Marks
Focus students' understanding of punctuation with this language arts skill-building site. Explore the usage of periods, questions marks and exclamation marks through this interactive activity that ask students to read a sentence and...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Commas
This site offers links to five interactive practices using commas and accompanying handouts. Adobe Reader is required.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Commas: Exercise 3
This comma exercise requires students to place commas in boxes within sentences where needed; if none is needed, they place small x's in the boxes. A downloadable handout is provided. Adobe Reader is required for the handouts.
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: Punctuate!
Click on the two cards to match each punctuation mark with one of its usage rules.
Quia
Quia: Commas Galore
An interactive quiz game where students are asked to choose the sentence that uses commas correctly. Answer twelve increasingly difficult questions in order to win the game but be careful. Incorrect answers will send the player back to...
Quia
Quia: Commas Coordinate Adjectives
Read the rules for placing commas between coordinate adjectives and then practice with ten sentences. Correct answers and a percentage score are provided once answers are submitted.
Other
Ballard Community School District: Comma Worksheet #4 [Pdf]
Practice using commas correctly in sentences with nouns of direct address and in dates and addresses.
Other
Englishlinx: Interjections Worksheet (Circling Part 1) [Pdf]
Learn about interjections and how to punctuate them, and then practice with some example sentences.
Other
Englishlinx: Interjections Worksheet (Writing Part 1) [Pdf]
Learn about interjections and practice writing and punctuating sentences that contain interjections.
Quia
Quia: Women and Reform Movements
A twenty question interactive quiz focusing on comma use with enclosures and interrupters. Students are provided with sentences and asked to edit them by adding the necessary commas. Correct answers are displayed after each question and...
IQ Site
Iq Study Activities: Language Arts Review 1
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...
Application Magazine
Aplicaciones: Ortografia Interactiva De Signos De Puntuacion
Which punctuation do we use? Here you will find seven different set of exercises so you can test your knowledge of when to use a period, a comma, a colon or parentheses.
TES Global
Blendspace: Don't Be Psycho Use Commas
A learning module with links to twenty-seven images, videos, texts, and activities about the importance of using commas correctly.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Punctuation: Commas in Places Quiz
This site offers a brief explanation of the placement of commas in addresses and with cities and states followed by a 13-question quiz.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Punctuation: Quotation Marks Quiz
This tutorial features a brief explanation of how to use quotation marks in direct quotes followed by a 10-question quiz.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Points for Punctuation
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a punctuation review game for students.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Punctuation
[Free Registration/Login Required] Punctuation and word spacing are used to guide readers. Punctuation marks tell readers when to pause or change their tone of voice. There are three main kinds of punctuation marks that appear at the end...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Quotation Marks
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use the basic conventions of speech punctuation in reading and writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Speech Marks
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the basic conventions of speech punctuation.
Read Works
Read Works: Watch Your Commas
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses Lynne Truss' book Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really DO Make a Difference! This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Types of Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students learn to recognize and punctuate different types of sentences.