Curated OER
Is That Expression in Your Voice Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding strategies, 3rd graders, working in groups, write sentences that could be read with expression. Each member of the group takes turns...
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Punctuating Dialogue
Sixth graders use narrative strategies (e.g., dialogue and action) to develop characters, plot and setting and maintain a consistent point of view. They create and accurately punctuate dialogue necessary to help the plot progress,...
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Getting to Know Our Elected Officials
Fourth graders research an elected official of their choice. They complete a Five-Paragraph Boogie Test worksheets.
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My Name is.....
Students utilize available technology to create, produce, and publish an alphabet pattern book. Students use publishing, multimedia and word processing for their writing. They create their own A My Name is Alice Class book based off the...
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Postcards to the Troops
Learners write postcards to the troops in Iraq. After listening to letters written by troops in Iraq, students discuss ways the troops are helping America and how they should show their support. Learners use a postcard template and...
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Community Brochures
Second graders research facets of their community in order to create an informational brochure. After brainstorming ideas of what could be included in the brochure, student groups get information from the internet, the library or a...
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Creating Storyboards for Younger Students
Students create electronic storyboards for younger children about a nearby refuge and lake. After interviewing the younger students about their impressions of the lake, they use Powerpoint to make the storyboard, including the interview,...
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Out of This World (Language Arts)
Second graders, in groups, research the planets in the solar system and create a guidebook for travel.
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Publishing a Group Book
Students examine various alphabet books. They write several sentences for their assigned letter of the alphabet, type them onto a word processing program, and create an illustration for a class alphabet book.
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Language for Sale
Sixth graders think about writing terminology as they rewrite a catalogue descriptioin of an item for sale.
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Hey Mom, Are We There Yet?
Sixth graders create a travel brochure for a selected destination of their choice using information gathered from the Internet.
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The Class Garden Essay
Fifth graders use a class garden as inspiration for a specific writing assignment. They conduct research into different types of flowers in photo images taken with a digital camera. Students write a creative essay and draw a picture to...
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The Great Chase
Students use the text "The Great Chase" to explore characters, views, and using words and phrases from the text. They write character profiles that describe the characters in the story. Students use key words and phrases from the story.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa Hyper Grammar: Quotation Marks
The University of Ottawa developed this site about quotation mark usage. Discusses using quotation marks to set off dialogue, titles, short works, and special terms. Also instructs learners in using quotation marks with other forms of...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Quotation Marks Exercise
Practice using quotation marks and italics in this brief exercise. Check your answers when you're done.
English Club
English Club: Quotation Marks (Double, Single)
This webpage lists the rules for the use of quotation marks, both double and single. It provides a list of rules for each with examples, explains the use of puctuation inside and outside the quotation marks, and discusses how to indicate...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Quotation Marks: Rules How to Use Them Correctly
This page focuses on the rules for using quotation marks correctly including general rules, when to use quotation marks; run-in and block quotations; quotation mark rules: quotations and capitalization, quotation marks and other...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Quotation Marks
This tutorial illustrates when it's appropriate to use quotation marks in your writing.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Extended Rules for Using Quotation Marks
This page offers more rules for using quotation marks, not just the basic rules. For example, Quotation marks may be used to indicate words used to denote irony.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Quotation Marks
Learn more about using quotation marks properly through this informative resource. Students and teachers will benefit from this helpful site.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Using Quotation Marks
This site offers a 10 question quiz in which students read a sentence or sentences and are asked to insert necessary punctuation --commas and quotation marks-- and capitalization. After completing each question or at the end, they click...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quotation Marks
Use this site to learn how to properly use quotation marks in stories, poems, articles, and speeches.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Quotation Marks Advanced Exercise
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the use of Quotation Marks.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Quotation Marks Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the use of Quotation Marks.