Curated OER
Quotation Marks, Commas, And More
Correctly punctuating a character's dialogue can become a fun activity as students learn to use quotation marks, commas, and more.
Curated OER
The Great Eight: Teaching the Eight Parts of Speech
Integrate grammar activities and review into your daily classroom routine to facilitate practice and reinforcement of this vital skill.
Curated OER
Getting to Know Our Elected Officials
Fourth graders research an elected official of their choice. They complete a Five-Paragraph Boogie Test worksheets.
Curated OER
Editing and Revision Made Easy
Fifth graders use computer to correct mistakes in written sentences.
Curated OER
The Interrupted Quotation
In this interrupted quotation worksheet, students edit sentences for punctuation and correct quotation placement. Students complete this for 22 sentences.
Curated OER
Early Explorers, Early Settlements and the Beginning of Democracy
Eighth graders research and discuss the early explorers, why countries sent out explorers, where they explored, and what their cultural contributions are to our US culture today.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Landforms Acrostic Poetry
Fourth graders apply scientific information about various landforms. They use the information to write and word process acrostic poems which they illustrate with clip art or pictures from magazines.
Curated OER
Writing A Business Letter Who, What, and Where Are They
Seventh graders word process business letters using proper tab settings, spell checking, grammar and punctuation. They use the Internet to search for names and addresses.
Curated OER
Transparency
Eighth graders discover proper use of quotation marks. They examine conversations between characters in comics and magazines. In pairs, 8th graders punctuate sentences correctly. They create a story, with dialogue, involving people in a...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Capitalization
In this lesson, you will learn about the conventions of capitalization that are approved by your English teacher. This lesson will help remind you to separate texting, where capitalization is optional, from academic writing, which is...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Capitalization
A learning module that teaches students about the rules of capitalization in five mini-lessons: Introduction; Capital Ideas: Direct Quotes, Titles, and Lists; Proper but Not Necessarily Stuffy Nouns; Exceptions; and Application Wade...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Capitalization (English Ii Writing)
In this lesson, students will learn that the language of casual exchanges on mobile devices is not acceptable in formal writing. They also develop some case sensitivity, the ability to use capital letters appropriately as you proofread...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Capitalization
In this lesson, you will learn about the conventions of capitalization. This lesson will help remind you to separate texting, where capitalization is optional, from academic writing, which is governed by a specific set of rules.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar Ii and Technical Writing: Capitalization
This lesson focuses on the rules for capitalization. It offers a list of capitalization rules, and links to several websites about capitalization. Click on the next page (3) for an exercise in capitalization. L.9-10.2 Cap/Punc/Spell
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: A Little Help With Capitals
This Purdue University lesson explains capitalization rules by giving simple examples. L.11-12.2 Cap/Punc/Spell
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Rules for Capitalization
This video is a lesson on the rules for capitalization. Real Player is required
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization
The slideshow lesson focuses on capitalization including why words are capitalized, general rules for capitalization, and rules and examples for capitalizing titles and proper nouns.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization in Titles
This lesson focuses on capitalizing titles; it explains why titles are capitalized, discusses the rules for capitalizing titles, and provides examples for each rule.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization in Quotations
This video lesson focuses on the rules of capitalization as they apply to quotations.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization in Sentences
This video lesson focuses on the use of capital letters in sentences including the following: after a colon, after a semicolon, titles, and lower case proper nouns at the beginning of sentences (eg. iPod). She also offers a memory trick...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization in Quotations
This lesson provides a video and a PowerPoint presentation focusing on when and what to capitalize and not capitalize in direct quotations. Real Player is required.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization in Sentences
This video lesson focuses capitalization in sentences including initial letter, proper nouns, interjections, and conversation fragments. Real Player is required.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization in Titles
This lesson focuses on capitalization in titles; it includes general information about capitalizing titles, information about long works such as books and movies, and short works such as poems and songs. Real Player is required.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Capitalization (English I Writing)
In this lesson, student learn that the language of casual exchanges on mobile devices is not acceptable in formal writing. They will also develop some case sensitivity, the ability to use capital letters appropriately as they proofread...