ClassFlow
Class Flow: Fishcheeks
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart uses journaling and other writing activities to help students develop writing and vocabulary competencies.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Comma Usage
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides extensive teaching examples for the appropriate use of commas. The color and graphics are engaging, and several Activote questions check student knowledge.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Daily Oral Language
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will use standard proofreading symbols to edit a given manuscript. Students will suggest definitions of vocabulary words based on context clues.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
Univ. Of Ottawa Hyper Grammar: Punctuation Errors
A ten-sentence punctuation quiz that tests whether or not students can correctly detect punctuation errors. Explanations and answers provided.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 8th Grade Grammar
This article discusses the grammar usually learned in the 8th grade including more concise and clear writing, speaking, and thinking; how to clearly combine ideas; more comma rules, and parallel structure.
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Wisewire: Domain Specific Language
Domain-specific vocabulary helps your writing sound more authoritative. This table will show you how specific vocabulary helps you knowledgeably discuss topics within a domain. Examples are provided. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.d
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Semicolon
The Guide to Grammar & Style provides this tutorial on two common uses for the semicolon: 1)to separate items in a list after a colon, and 2)to separate two independent clauses in one sentence.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Grammar Logs #127
This page, by the same person who wrote the online "Guide to Grammar and Writing," provides a log of questions and answers about grammar. The first question and answer on this page discuss absolute phrases and how they function in...