Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Comma Usage
This punctuation quiz requires the student to insert necessary commas before comparing his or her version to the possible answers.
ProProfs
Pro profs.com: 8th Grade Ela: Gle 23 and 24
An interactive quiz with ten questions that must be completed in fifteen minutes or less. Students choose the sentence in each questions that demonstrates correct punctuation and capitalization usage. Correct answers are displayed after...
IQ Site
Iq Study Activities: Language Arts Review 1
Students practice spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and usage skills by choosing the correctly written phrase for the underlined section in twenty-five sentences. Keep score as you go along and see your final score at the end of the...
IQ Site
Iq Study Activities: Language Arts Review 3
A twenty-five question exercise where students choose the answer that corrects all spelling, capitalization, usage, and punctuation errors in the underlined portion of each sentence. The student's score is kept along the way and...
Other
Write Words: Phrase Frequency Counter
A simple writing tool where one can paste in a piece of text, choose how many words a phrase might have, and count how many occurrences of each phrase that length there are. A writer can avoid repetition using this tool to check their work.
Other
Write Words: Word Frequency Counter
A simple writing tool where one can paste in a piece of text, and count how many times each word appears in the text. A good tool to use to avoid over-using words.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Appearance
This page focuses on the appearance of the paper after the writing is complete. It offers links to a pre-printing checklist and a post-printing checklist.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising
Contains plans for four lessons that teach about the fallacies used in advertising such as bandwagon appeal, hasty generalizations, red herrings, emotional appeals, and more. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: General Writing Resources
This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.
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.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Writing Numbers Exercise
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with writing numbers.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Writing a Draft
This page focuses on writing a first draft including getting all the information down in an organized manner without worrying about the grammar and mechanics. It discusses the advantages of using word processing programs which make it...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Story Writing With Arthur
This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Grammar (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on finding and fixing grammar errors in your writing. It includes strategies for locating errors such as reading your paper aloud to see if your are...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Grammar (English Ii Writing)
This lesson focuses on finding and fixing grammar errors in your writing. It includes strategies for locating errors such as reading your paper aloud to see if your are missing words. It also provides practice with subject-verb agreement...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Scientific Community
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How the scientific community shares results and monitors scientific integrity.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Scientific Community
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How the scientific community shares results and monitors scientific integrity.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Unnecessary Words and Phrases
This page explains the need to revise writing to remove unnecessary words and phrases to produce clear, concise writing. Examples are provided.
TES Global
Blendspace: At Resources
This eleven-part learning module provides assorted assistive technology references. This blendspace provides reading and writing video, print, and audio resources that will help special needs students with their reading and writing.
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: Online Editor
This interactive site provides a site for students to enter text. Students can click a button to check their entered text for errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar. A "deeper" search button with scan for plagiarized text.
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: 15 Shocking Student Writing Fails (Infographic)
This infographic is provided to help alert students about common writing mistakes. The following types of errors are discussed: commas, verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, apostrophes, pronouns, and prepositions.
Caro Clarke
Explaining Too Much: Why More Is Less
This is the eleventh article in a series that is designed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on how to eliminate needless information in your novel. The key is to not explain too much about the action.
Other
Efa: Editorial Freelancers Association
This page is for freelance journalists who have narrowed their selected field to editorials and editorial columns. Newly combined with the Editorial Freelancers Association, this site contains materials from both organizations.