Curated OER
Star Words
Students identify and categorize apostrophes. They create maps of the solar system and write simple sentences using apostrophes that describe each planet's characteristics.
Curated OER
Apostrophes - possession
Students examine the use of apostrophes. From a given reading, students locate all words with apostrophes. Using these words as examples, students discuss rules for using apostrophes. Students match a person an an object from a list...
Curated OER
Introduce Contractions
Students are introduced to contractions and their function as apostrophes. In this contraction instructional activity, students recall the word "it's" on the board. Students then sound out the word and recognize that he apostrophe is...
Curated OER
School-Home Links: Possession and Apostrophes
In this apostrophe worksheet, students read through several sentences and choose the correct apostrophe word from the box to write on the line. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.
Curated OER
School-Home Links: Apostrophe Usage
In this showing possession worksheet, students review the rules and several examples for apostrophe usage to show possession. Students' task is to change the phrases to show possession using an apostrophe.
Curated OER
Apostrophes: Is or Has?
In this apostrophes worksheet, students read 10 sentences that contain a word with an apostrophe. Students decide if the apostrophe is being used for possession, is or has and write the answer in the blank after each sentence.
Curated OER
Online Esl Quizzes- Apostrophes - 1
In this apostrophes worksheet, students choose the sentence that shows the correct use of an apostrophe in possessives in 5 examples. They complete the quiz online.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Plural Forms
A good explanation of Plural Forms for the student. Site also offers a quiz at the end. L.11-12.2b Spelling
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar Ii and Technical Writing: Review
This lesson focuses on capitalization and punctuation including links to practices and quizzes on capitalization, commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks.
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: 20 Writing Mistakes Even Native Speakers Make (Infographic)
This GrammarCheck infographic provides tips for fixing common writing mistakes. Information on errors related to homophones, apostrophes, commas, participles, and sentence structure are included.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Apostrophes and Possession
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of apostrophes in forming possessives; it defines apostrophe and lists its purposes. It lists two types of possessives, singular and plural, explains how to form each including the placement of...
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Conventions
Sharpen your use of the formal conventions of English with this self-guided learning module. The module focuses on formal and informal language, making pronouns agree with their antecedents, and common spelling and grammar errors. At the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Strategies for Editing: Practice 3
A learning module that teaches students about editing their writing in four mini-lessons: Introduction, Avoiding Coma Catastrophes, Placing Quotation Marks, Apostrophes, Em Dashes Like a Pro, and and Putting It All Together.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Apostrophes in Context
A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and two videos demonstrating how to teach apostrophes in context with mentor sentences.
English Plus+
Plural Possessives
This site discusses the correct and incorrect usage of apostrophes to show possession with plural nouns.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Apostrophe
What is an apostrophe? Where are apostrophes found in writing? Use this website to learn more about these crazy little punctuation marks.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Apostrophes
This resource looks at the three main uses of apostrophes: to take the place of deleted letters; to show possession; and to show plurals of letters, numbers, symbols, abbreviations and words used as words.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Punctuation
This page provides links to punctuation reference materials for apostrophes, colons, dashes, commas, parentheses, italics, quotation marks, and semicolons.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Apostrophe
This entry explains and provides examples of when and how to use the apostrophe to show ownership and to form the plural of letters, numbers, and signs used as words. It also explains when not to use apostrophes such as with the pronoun...
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Self Teaching Units: Apostrophes
This module explains how to use apostrophes to form possessive nouns and pronouns, provides links to exercises for each new idea, and a link to a post lesson quiz.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Punctuation
This site offers a list of links to punctuation exercises/quizzes including commas, semicolons, quotation marks, apostrophes, and italics.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Apostrophe Use Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the use of Apostrophes.
Towson University
Towson University: Apostrophe Use Exercise 4
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the use of Apostrophes.