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It’s Your Birthday! – Conventions: Revision and Proofreading

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Happy birthday! Celebrate everyone's birthday with this writing activity, which prompts seventh graders to research historical events in a country at the time of their birth to create an essay. Working in pairs, they proofread each...
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Language Arts

For Teachers 5th
In this literacy worksheet, 5th graders practice putting the sentences into the proper grammar structure, using the correct punctuation, and finding the definitions in the dictionary.
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Capitalizing Sentences

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts instructional activity, students learn that sentences and names of people and places begin with a capital letter. Students read 10 sentences which have capitalization errors and write them correctly on the lines.
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Avoiding Run-on Sentences

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Viewers are entertained as well as educated by the illustrations in this colorfully animated PowerPoint focused on run-on sentences.
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Clauses: Building Blocks for Sentences

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Colorfully animated and packed with engaging examples, this PowerPoint encourages to employ clauses to create a variety of sentence structures. Peer editing of sample paragraphs would provide an opportunity for guided practice with...
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Language Arts Worksheets

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Looking for some quick grammar warm-ups? What about handy spelling crossword puzzles? Find everything you need with a resource that contains practice worksheets for parts of speech, parts of a sentence, common grammatical errors, tricky...
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Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the historical and cultural context in Sandburg's poem. The poetic devices of personification and apostrophe are utilized in the poem and identified by Students.
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WRITE A STORY

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders compose two or more simple sentences in response to a picture. They construct sentences and produce captions with 3 or more sentences that extend the subject/verb pattern. They demonstrate age appropriate correct use of...
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Editing Sentences

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this editing sentences worksheets, students cut out sets of cards that contain punctuation and capitalization mistakes and rewrite the sentences correctly. Students write twenty sentences on four cards.
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Types of Sentences

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, learners practice their skills in writing and placing punctuation marks for exclamatory, declarative, imperative, and interrogative sentences. Students complete 16 problems, and an answer key is provided....
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Capital Letters

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this recognizing capital letter usage worksheet, students read a paragraph and identify the words that should be capitalized. Students circle 50 answers.
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Capital Letter Review

For Students 2nd - 5th
For this capital letter review worksheet, students respond to 2 multi-step questions that require them to identify words that should be capitalized. Students also write 3 sentences that include proper nouns.
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Capitalization

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this capitalization learning exercise, students circle the names of people and places in the first chart. In the second chart, students capitalize the words that require it and finish with three capitalization sentence activities.
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Capital Letter Review 3

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this capital letter review worksheet, students respond to 2 multi-step questions that require them to identify words that should be capitalized. Students also write 3 sentences that include proper nouns.
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Capital Letter Review

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this capital letter review worksheet, students respond to 2 multi-step questions that require them to identify words that should be capitalized. Students also write 3 sentences that include proper nouns.
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Parentheses and Brackets

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Practice using parentheses and brackets with your class using this handout and short exercise. This could also be used as a reference sheet, since it lists several different proper ways to use parentheses and brackets, with examples of...
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Abbreviations for Valentine's Day

For Students K - 6th Standards
Practice abbreviations with a Valentine's Day twist. Learners decide whether each abbreviation is correct. If the abbreviation is appropriate, the heart his colored red; if it is not, an arrow is drawn through it. 
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Capitalization

For Students 4th - 5th
In these capitalization worksheets, students review the capitalization rules and then complete three pages of exercises that help them understand capitalization.
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Observing Capitalization Rules

For Students 4th - 5th
In this capitalization worksheet, learners complete three activities that help them follow the rules for capitalization in their writing.
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STOP THAT SENTENCE

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students stop their sentences with the correct punctuation marks. They choose which punctuation mark is needed to write sentences in their journals.
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Individualized Lesson for Student C

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explain how to solve an algebraic word problem using correct grammar and punctuation.  In this math and writing lesson, students are given a word problem and must write down  directions to solve it. 
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Capitalization Practice

For Students 4th - 6th
In this capitalization worksheet, students circle capitalization errors and add end marks to sentences, capitalize proper nouns, and edit sentences to correct.
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Proofreading

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders practice proofreading skills. For this proofreading lesson, 5th graders check their work for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling errors. They participate in a proofreading relay where each person takes a turn fixing...
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WOW - Who Or What? (A Six Trait Lesson)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students locate and select riddles in library books to share, write riddles using template, select appropriate parts of speech to complete riddle template using AlphaSmart, correctly capitalize and punctuate riddle, and illustrate their...