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Handout
ACT360 Media

Writing Tips: Sentence Builder: Apostrophe

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief description of the rules, usage, and examples of the "apostrophe" in English punctuation.
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Handout
ACT360 Media

Writing Tips: Sentence Builder: Quotation Marks

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief description of the rules, usage, and examples of "quotation marks" in English punctuation.
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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: Periods, Question Marks & Exclamation Marks

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
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...
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Interactive
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Commas

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
This site offers links to five interactive practices using commas and accompanying handouts. Adobe Reader is required.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Commas: Exercise 3

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
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.
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Interactive
Courseware Solutions

Wordville: Commas: A Fun Way for Kids to Practice Using Commas

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
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.
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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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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Commas Galore

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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...
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Quia

Quia: Commas Coordinate Adjectives

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
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.
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Other

Ballard Community School District: Comma Worksheet #4 [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Practice using commas correctly in sentences with nouns of direct address and in dates and addresses.
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Other

Englishlinx: Interjections Worksheet (Circling Part 1) [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Learn about interjections and how to punctuate them, and then practice with some example sentences.
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Other

Englishlinx: Interjections Worksheet (Writing Part 1) [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Learn about interjections and practice writing and punctuating sentences that contain interjections.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Women and Reform Movements

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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...
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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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Activity
Application Magazine

Aplicaciones: Ortografia Interactiva De Signos De Puntuacion

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Don't Be Psycho Use Commas

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A learning module with links to twenty-seven images, videos, texts, and activities about the importance of using commas correctly.
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Unit Plan
Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Punctuation: Commas in Places Quiz

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
This site offers a brief explanation of the placement of commas in addresses and with cities and states followed by a 13-question quiz.
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Unit Plan
Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Punctuation: Quotation Marks Quiz

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
This tutorial features a brief explanation of how to use quotation marks in direct quotes followed by a 10-question quiz.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Points for Punctuation

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a punctuation review game for students.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Punctuation

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
[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...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Quotation Marks

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use the basic conventions of speech punctuation in reading and writing.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Speech Marks

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the basic conventions of speech punctuation.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Watch Your Commas

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[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...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Types of Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students learn to recognize and punctuate different types of sentences.