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Language Arts: Punctuation and Characterization

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students prepare for a test on punctuation and characterization by completing practice assignments. While completing the assignment, they note the difference between direct and indirect characterization and explain how punctuation...
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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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Question or Statement

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this end marks activity, students rewrite 8 incorrect sentences using a capital letter and the correct end mark for each statement or question.
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Commas 101: The Basics

For Students 7th - 9th
Clear up common questions about commas with this handy resource! Useful as a reference page as well as a grammar activity, it presents six different rules for comma usage, including fanboys, lists, and parenthetical words and phrases. A...
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Independent and Subordinate Clauses

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Middle schoolers identify independent and subordinate clauses and differentiate between the two. They discuss sentences, complete a practice worksheet, write independent clauses, and identify independent and subordinate clauses in the...
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Apostrophe Usage

For Students 6th - 9th
Helpful as a review activity and a reference sheet for your middle schoolers' binders, this worksheet clarifies the proper ways to use apostrophes. Indicating that they should be used in three cases ("weird" plurals, contractions, and...
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Conventions-Interjections

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss interjections reviewing them to be words or phrases that express excitement or strong emotion. In this language arts activity, 5th graders understand that commas or exclamation marks are used to separate...
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Book Talk Fun!: Growing Independence and Fluency

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Master reading fluently and with emotion and expression! Young learners read and reread the book Tiki Tiki Tembo by Arlene Mosel to practice this strategy. The remark on the end punctuation to help them decide how to read the sentence. 
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Punctuating Sentences

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this punctuation worksheet, students insert the correct punctuation at the end of 11 simple sentences. Sentences are interrogatives and declaratives.
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School-Home Links: Using Punctuation Correctly

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this punctuation usage worksheet, students review the rules to make a complete sentence including capital letters and punctuation marks. Students then write several sentences about their friends at school. Parents or guardians must...
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Which Kind of Sentence?

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
In this types of sentences worksheet, students read the sentences and write the correct punctuation mark at the end to illustrate the correct type of sentence. Students review the definitions for a declarative and interrogative sentence.
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School-Home Links: Writing Complete Sentences

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this complete sentences worksheet, students write about a special day with their family and remember to use capital letters and punctuation. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.
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Kelly's Kindergarten

May Daily Activities

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Five weeks of daily activities for the month of May! With a new activity for each day of the month, your youngsters will utilize a variety of skills and practice everything from sight words and spelling to counting by twos or coloring...
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Sentence Punctuation

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this punctuating sentences worksheet, students add a period or add an exclamation point to complete the 12 sentences.
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Journalism - The Attention Grabbing Topic Sentence

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students act as journalists to grab audience attention with the topic sentence for their writing. They write paragraphs in quantities appropriate to grade level.
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Bermingham City Schools

Opinion Writing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
It's no secret that children can be very opinionated, but rather than fight against this natural tendency, embrace it with this primary grade writing project. After a shared reading of a children's book about persuasion, young learners...
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Printables
Scholastic

Transitional Guided Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Use a fill-in-the-blank lesson plan template to enhance your guided reading lesson plans with details surrounding decoding strategies, fluency and phrasing, vocabulary strategies, comprehension, and more! 
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Documenting Texas Women’s History through Photographs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore women’s history. In this women’s studies lesson, students will examine seven photographs that depict prominent female figures from Texas’s history. Students will engage in a discussion of the photographs as a mode of...
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Using a Colon for Time

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this colon worksheet, students rewrite sentences with the numbers and a colon to represent the time. Students complete 12 problems total.
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Statements and Questions

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this ending marks worksheet, students write the correct end punctuation for 10 statements and questions. Rules for how to punctuate are provided. 
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At the Beach

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this punctuation worksheet, students read the sentences and add a period, exclamation point, or a question mark to the end of each sentence. Students complete 10 sentences.
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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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Interactive
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Quiz on Using Quotation Marks

For Students 5th - 6th
In this quotation marks learning exercise, students complete a 10 question on-line interactive quiz about the correct use of quotation marks. Students read the given sentence and type in all needed punctuation marks.
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The Interrupted Quotation

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this interrupted quotation worksheet, students edit sentences for punctuation and correct quotation placement. Students complete this for 22 sentences.