Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commonly Misused Words: How Their Effects Affect You
This tutorial focuses on commonly misused words with a variety of media. It offers a YouTube video, "Using the Correct Words;" an infographic which lists 8 commonly misused word sets in comic format; a slide show with tips for the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commonly Misused Words: How Their Effects Affect You
This tutorial focuses on often misused words using a multimedia approach. It begins with a short YouTube video discussing effect/affect; then provides an infographic which shows 8 commonly misused word sets in a comic format. It also...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commonly Misused Words
This tutorial focuses on commonly misused words such as homophones and homonyms; it provides a video and two slideshows. The YouTube video shows humorous misrepresentatations of words. The first of the two slideshows defines terms and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Ten Commonly Misused Words
This tutorial focuses on commonly misused words, their meanings and hints to remember the correct usage.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Grades 11 12 Spelling Bee
Read and listen to stories with some words missing. Click appropriate grade level tab. Fill in the missing words, see how many words you spelled correctly, and get corrections for the ones you missed. L.11-12.2 Cap/Punc/Spell
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Spelling Bee: Introduction
This is an introduction Interactive Spelling Bee; it explains how the game works by grade level: Grades 1-8 listen to three stories separately and spell words from each story; high school students will listen to sentences and spell words...
Other
Santa Monica College: Words Commonly Confused
This site contains a list of commonly confused words with practice activities to help in learning how to use them correctly.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Grades 9 10 Spelling Bee
Read and listen to stories with some words missing. Fill in the missing words, see how many words you spelled correctly, and get corrections for the ones you missed.
Other
A Word a Day: Theme List
If you need to develop your own practice spelling list, visit the "Word--a--Day" archives (back to 1996) to find interesting vocabulary/spelling words based on weekly themes such as "Words about Marriage," "Words about Laughing," and...
Savvas Learning
Pearson Longman: Sentence Resources for Writers: Overview of Punctuation
A grammar assessment for the high school student to practice recognizing and writing sentences with correct word use, punctuation and mechanics. Includes ten multiple choice questions that can be submitted to be scored and an essay...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Spelling (English Ii Writing)
You will learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct spelling. L.9-10.2 Cap/Punc/Spell
Other
Sharpening Your Writing Skills
This handbook provides step-by-step modules to help you develop an appropriate business writing style. It also gives you rules for punctuation and "plain English." Answers are provided for exercises. PDF document.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: On Track English I Writing: Editing
This site offers links to each section of Writing, Module 8, Lessons 1-9 and Practices 1-3. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions; spell correctly; and edit drafts for...
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: Grammar and Punctuation
This site provides a grammar reference for students. The rules for using dashes, commas, semicolons, coordinating conjunctions, and conjunctive adverb are included. Topics including subject-verb agreement, how to proofread, and twelve...
Merriam-Webster
Merriam Webster: Word of the Day
This daily resource gives the word for the day, definition, example sentence and a "Did you know?" about the word.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Punctuation
A learning module that teaches students about the rules of punctuation in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Terminal Punctuation, The Common Comma, Apostrophes and Quotation Marks, Semicolons, and Your Turn.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Spelling
A learning module that teaches students about spelling in five mini-lessons: Introduction, English-Start to Finnish, Commonly Mispeled Words, Spell-checking-Necessary but not sufficient, and Spelling Required.
Harvard University
The Great Vowel Shift
Do you know what the Great Vowel Shift is? Check out this site to learn more how this shift played a part in the history of the English Language.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Where Do Languages Come From?
A most interesting site! Explore why the French speak French in France and the English speak English in England and lots of other information on the history of words and languages.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Hyphens
This site provides information on various uses for the hyphen with an emphasis on dividing words at the end of a line. For additional information, click on the link "Compound Words."
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Plague Words and Phrases
"Avoid problems created by these words or phrases." Examples: And also, As to Whether, and lots more.
British Library
British Library: Language & Literature: Dictionaries and Meanings
Article discusses the history of English dictionaries over a five-hundred-year period. Includes selections from Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755 and the Oxford English Dictionary. With useful comments about the origins of words,...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Ellipsis
Instructional resource providing notes and examples on the rules of using the ellipsis. A quiz link is provided.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Bracket
Instructional resource providing notes and examples on the rules of using brackets.