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Punctuation Game
Students identify and use hyphens, dashes, and semicolons. Using teacher created cards, they correct sentences written on the board by the instructor.
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Every Day Edit - Ederle Swims English Channel
In this everyday editing instructional activity learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the first woman to swim the English Channel. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
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You Be the Editor
Young editors work in teams to find all the errors in a text. They identify grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors. Use this activity to reinforce correct usage of prominent punctuation symbols, such as apostrophes and ellipses. You...
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Language Arts: Punctuation and Characterization
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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Hoops: Grade 4 and 5
4th-5th graders will compete in a game similar to Jeopardy in which they answer questions from a variety of subject areas including science, language, and math. The questions are based on an extremely wide variety of topics, so would be...
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Full Stops
This is an incredibly detailed and thorough plan. It is all about full stops - which is the British way of saying, "Periods." First-year learners practice the skill of knowing when to use a period, and understand what periods are meant...
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Every-Day Edit: Fastest Sport in the World
In this proof reading instructional activity, learners read a paragraph about Jai Alai, Arguably "The Fastest Sport in the World." Students locate and correct 10 errors in the paragraph.
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8 Comma Rules
In this comma rules worksheet, students add commas to the sentences according to the 8 comma rules. Students complete 40 sentences.
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Sentence Based Capitalization
Second graders demonstrate their command of Standard English conventions of capitalization by circling all the letters that should be capitalized in the sentences provided. In addition, they rewrite two sentences in which all the letters...
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Second Grade Language
In this language arts worksheet, 2nd graders complete multiple choice questions about ending sounds, capitals, completing sentences, punctuation, and more. Students complete 25 questions.
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Patty Reed's Doll: The Story of the DonnerParty
Students explore westward movement through eyes of doll belonging to Patty Reed, member of Donner Party. They write journal entries from points of view of characters in book, Patty Reed's Doll, participate in Pack the Wagon game, and...
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Billy's Most Quotable Quotes: Shakespeare Lines and Quotes: Fun Trivia Quiz
Few teachers cover multiple Shakespeare plays in one year unless they teach a class on the Bard, so a quiz on multiple plays may have limited appeal. Despite this, it may be useful to you in planning your own quotation quiz.
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Egg-ceptional Poetry Writing
Students recognize that eggs have nutritional value. In this eggs lesson plan, students create poetry for a shape book on eggs. Students participate in additional games and activities about the egg.
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"The Giver" by Lois Lowry
Young scholars read the novel, "The Giver", and test their comprehension through the game Jeopardy. Then students research individual rights of different cultures and write a summary of their findings. Young scholars develop a personal...
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Teaching Grammar Without the Hammer: Five Fun Activities
There are five lessons on teaching grammar here for you to peruse. Two of them work well for kindergartners; one on teaching synonyms and one on teaching parts of speech by reading Tall Tales. These lessons are especially engaging and...
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Punctuating Adverb Clauses
In this grammar activity, students review and discuss the general rules for punctuating adverb clauses. Students then place a comma where one is needed in ten sentences with adverb clauses.
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Journalism - The Attention Grabbing Topic Sentence
Students act as journalists to grab audience attention with the topic sentence for their writing. They write paragraphs in quantities appropriate to grade level.