Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program
A Mini lesson on Semicolons
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" serves as an exemplar for a mini-lesson on semicolons. Working alone or in small groups, class members first circle all the semicolons in the letter, and then consider how this...
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The Colon
An outstanding presentation clarifies one of the most misunderstood and misused punctuation marks: the colon. With clear instructions about the appropriate times to use the colon and examples of proper usage, learners practice using it...
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Conventions Chart
Help your young writers pay close attention to their conventions and move toward revision with a straightforward chart. Learners can analyze 11 sentences on this page by noting down the first letter in each, the first of words in each,...
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Punctuation
In this writing worksheet, students read twenty sentences and insert the correct punctuation for each sentence. For example, "I am in elementary school..."
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Punctuation Celebration
Second graders read the scrambled words and rewrite the sentences in order to make a complete sentence. They punctuate each sentence with a period.
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The Secret Garden - Punctuation 3
Are run-on sentences an issue in your class? Ask your pupils to practice punctuating sentences that have been combined to help them understand where a sentence should begin and end. The sentences are about The Secret Garden by Frances...
McGraw Hill
Grammar Practice Workbook
Make sure your pupils exercise their grammar muscles with this collection of worksheets. Organized into units, the packet covers everything from the parts of speech to sentence structure to punctuation.
British Council
Unit 5: Making Arrangements
Are future entrepreneurs prepared to set up a meeting or schedule a conference call? Lesson five of a nine-part series of career education and skills activities focuses on proper punctuation and great grammar in the business world....
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Sentence Structure: Avoiding Choppy, Run-on, and Stringy Sentences
Use this as a reference sheet for peer- or self-editing, or as a guide when teaching sentence structure. Defines and gives examples of choppy, run-on, and stringy sentences, and provides corrected versions of each. Check revised examples...
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Types of Sentences
In this language arts worksheet, students 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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Express Yourself!
Elementary learners practice reading with expression to understand text better. They identify punctuation marks to see how each sentence is to be expressed with a certain emotion. Then they practice their new skills by working through...
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Building a Better Sentence
Sentence construction is both a science and an art. This bare bones lesson ties an analysis of earth's geology to sentence formation. Although referenced as a major part of the activity, there are no links to the technology or resources...
EngageNY
End of Unit Assessment: On-Demand Analysis of Meg Lowman’s Research in the Rainforest
Come explore with me. Scholars complete an end of the unit assessment in which they write an essay describing how Meg Lowman explored the rainforest canopy. Pupils fill in an outline organizer before beginning their writing.
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Capitalization and Punctuation
In this capitalization and punctuation worksheet, students put the missing capital letters and full stops in 12 sentences as well as in 3 paragraphs.
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Sentences
Review punctuation and the use of adverbs. Learners are guided through a discussion of the use of adverbs. They then talk about the correct use of a question mark, exclamation mark, and period in a series of sentences. The resource is...
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Test Your Grammar Skills - Sentence Punctuation 1
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite sentences with capital letters and correct punctuation. Ten sentences are to be corrected and rewritten.
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Intermediate Sentence Correction Worksheet
In this sentence correction instructional activity, 5th graders proofread and edit 8 sentences. They make changes to verb tenses, capitalization, the use of their/there/they're, and end marks.
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Which Kind of Sentence
In this type of sentences worksheet, students read each sentence and write the correct punctuation at the end of the sentence. Students review examples for declarative and interrogative sentence endings. Students complete 10 sentences.
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Stop Sign Punctuation
Learners use punctuation and capitalization. In this grammar lesson students use stop signs in the place of periods. Learners cut out sentences and put stop signs in appropriate places. Students indicate capitalization where needed.
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All About Me!
Reinforce punctuation skills as well as printing skills with a kindergarten autobiography worksheet. Youngsters write their information, including their name, address, and age, and draw a picture of themselves and the place where they...
Book Units Teacher
Sentence Unit
Imagine using history to teach grammar. This 178-slide PowerPoint presents an amazing collection of images and historical information about the settlement of Tennessee and about famous residents like Daniel Boone. Viewers are tasked with...
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Telling Sentences
In this telling sentences practice worksheet, students read 7 sentences, circle the first letter of the sentences. and draw line under the ending punctuation.
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Sentence Review
In this sentence review worksheet, students examine 7 sentences and circle the first letter in each sentence and draw a line under the ending punctuation in each sentence.
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Sentence Review 2
In this sentence review worksheet, students examine 7 sentences and circle the first letter in each sentence and draw a line under the ending punctuation in each sentence.