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Every Day Edit - Japan's "Coming of Age Day"
Japan's coming of age is the background for this practice sheet. Pupils correct mistakes in a short paragraph. There are errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every Day Edit - Sir Isaac Newton
Practice everyday! Have learners correct grammatical errors in a short paragraph about Sir Isaac Newton. The errors are in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every Day Edit - First Hot-Air Balloon
Daily practice develops skills! Use this half-sheet to help learners correct grammatical errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Today's topic is a hot-air balloon flight.
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Pesky Punctuation 1: The Comma
From the purpose of punctuation to its proper uses, guide your learners with this presentation. Great visuals dissect sentences to show where a comma belongs and the different parts of a sentence. Help your class use commas only when...
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To Quote or Not to Quote
Quotation marks are the focus of this resource. In it, youngsters discover how to correctly use punctuation marks. It is meant to be carried out over a three-day period. You could shorten it, but I wouldn't. The activities are...
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Colon Exercise 2
In this punctuation review, young grammarians read 10 sentences checking them for accurate use of colons. If a sentence is correct, they mark it with the letter C. If a sentence is incorrect, the fix the mistakes. An answer key is...
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Every Day Edit - Telephone Operators
Here's a bell-ringer for your grammar class! Learn about Emma M. Nutt and telephone operators as you search for spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation errors.
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Every Day Edit - Hot Diggity Dog
Looking for a bell-ringer activity to get your grammar class started? Pass out this half-sheet on National Hot Dog Month! Budding grammarians will search for the capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar errors included.
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Punctuation: Quotation Marks, Question Marks, and Exclamation Marks
There are four children pictured, each is saying a different phrase. It's up to you and your first graders to complete each phrase by adding proper punctuation. Read the dialogue-driven passage, then read what each child is saying,...
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Comparing Poems
Young literary analysts compare two poems by the same author. Readers look for slant rhyme, observe the beat and rhythm of each, and search for repeated vowel sounds. After re-reading, they observe the lack of punctuation and the stanza...
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A Questionnaire: What Do You Like to Read?
What do your fifth graders know about types of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry? Find out as they fill out this questionnaire that requires them to list authors and texts that exemplify each genre. Not only will you be able to assess what...
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Checking Grammar: Accuracy
Get young writers in the practice of editing their work using this punctuation and grammar worksheet. They first read eight sentences with grammar issues, rewriting or checking off as correct. The sentence errors involve subject-verb...
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Questions
Explore end punctuation with this multi-step worksheet on question marks. Scholars begin by finishing 10 sentences with either a period or a question mark. Consider discussing patterns they see at this point (first word, inflection,...
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Vínculo entre la escuela y el hogar: puntuación
Native Spanish speakers learning how to use punctuation and capitalization take home this worksheet to hone skills. The entire worksheet is written in Spanish (including the directions), and both the student and his parents sign the...
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What's Missing?
Can you tell which punctuation mark is missing throughout this PowerPoint game? Each slide displays 10 punctuation marks and an empty spot for the missing one. Challenge your detectives to be the first one to figure out which mark is...
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Subject and Verb Agreement
Using astronomy-themed sentences, grammarians complete ten sentences with the correct verb tense. This subject-verb agreement worksheet does the work of two objectives as learners read informative sentences about space while they choose...
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Paragraph Editing
This instructional activity includes a list of proofreading marks and asks readers to edit the paragraph provided. The exercise is replicated twice on the page so that you can cut reproductions in half to save paper. There is also a key.
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Every-day Edit: Hobo Turned Poet
Pupils proofread a short paragraph about Carl Sandburg. The errors span capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Useful as a warm-up and language conventions review. Go over it together as a class verbally and have individual...
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Every-day Edit: Rubber Duck Voyagers
Learners correct errors in spelling and usage in a quick, six-line proofreading exercise. Makes a nice warm-up and reinforces editing skills. I've seen work like this called Daily Oral Language (D.O.L) practice; the class reviews the...
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Play Ball: A Major League Review Game
Apply the game of baseball to a fun review activity. Pupils earn a "base" for each subject question that they answer correctly. This activity can be modified and used for any subject area, including math, social studies, and language arts.
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Fanatically Grammatically Correct
Research guidelines for correct usage, then explore how creative writers employ punctuation as an essential tool in their craft. Secondary classes create board games to teach elementary school students how to properly punctuate. From the...
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Every-Day Edit - Harriet Tubman
Young editors use this half-sheet paragraph about Harriet Tubman to practice proofreading skills. Errors needing correction include spelling, quotation marks, commas, there/their usage, and capitalization.
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Conquering the Comma
Thoroughly review where to put commas: after an introductory clause, before a coordinating conjunction, around nonessential phrases, etc. Furthermore, avoid comma splices by adding a conjunction or semicolon or by starting a new sentence...
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Commas vs Semicolons
Middle schoolers arrange sentences to create correct punctuation use with commas and semicolons. Using FANBOYS, they define and recognize subordinate (dependent) vs. independent clauses, and other necessary parts of a sentence. They...