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Question words, question marks
Practice the five W's and question marks with a fun grammar worksheet. After copying the words who, what, where, when, why, and how, kindergartners fill the words into various questions. For extra practice, have kids come up with their...
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Superfudge: Novel Study
Has everyone heard the news about the herd of antelope? Scholars explore homonyms with the novel study for Superfudge by beloved children's author Judy Blume. Additionally, they answer text questions and engage in language activities....
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Friends at School: Punctuation
For this early childhood punctuation worksheet, students add a period, exclamation point, or question mark to end each of the 10 sentences.
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Punctuation Practice, 3
In this language arts worksheet, students fill in the bubble under the punctuation mark that best ends each sentence. They select from period, question mark, exclamation mark and comma. The final three sentences require students to add...
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Beginning Punctuation Quiz
In this punctuation worksheet, students decide if the sentences should end with a period, question mark, or exclamation point. There are 15 questions on this page.
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Use of Punctuation
In this punctuation activity, students fill in the beginning and ending marks to sentences. Students fill in periods, question marks, and quotation marks where needed.
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Punctuation
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in either commas or semicolons to ten compound sentences to make each one grammatically correct.
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Say it with FEELING!
Why should we read with expression when we read? Engage your learners in this discussion and teach them the easiest way to gauge expression: the end mark! Is it a question mark? An exclamation point? This helps you determine how to...
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Colons, Dashes, Hyphens, and Parentheses
When should you use a colon, dash, or hyphen? Middle schoolers insert different types of punctuation marks into given sentences. Rules for usage are included in each example.
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Commas: Conventional Usage
This four-page handout explains in detail when and why to use commas. Three extended sentences provide an opportunity for practice splitting long sentences into shorter ones. Multiple examples help to clarify correct usage.
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Using Speech Marks: Quotations
Provide your class with a review of the appropriate way to punctuate dialogue. This presentation goes through a detailed explanation of the use of quotation marks in writing and provides learners with a variety of examples to cement...
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Subordinating Conjunctions and Subordinate Clauses
Trying to help your learners improve their writing? Experiment with complex sentences with this handout and short exercise. This handout presents definitions of different types of clauses, a table explaining subordinating conjunctions,...
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School-Home Links: Describe Your Family
Choose a familiar topic to practice writing. A prompt is given asking learners to write two complete sentences that describe their families. Pointers are written at the bottom to help writers check that they started each sentence with a...
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Get Rid of "And"
Run-on sentences using and are all too common in our youngsters' writing. Have them read these different paragraphs to determine where they can remove some of the ands. Consider doing this activity as a whole class on the overhead or...
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Commas: Where Do They Go?
Help your class use commas properly using this resource. Learners discuss the use of commas in a list, before a conjunction, and as part of a qualifying statement. At the end of the presentation there is a quiz.
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Sentence Punctuation
In this sentence punctuation instructional activity, students put missing capital letters and ending punctuation in sentences then do the same for very short paragraphs.
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Add an Interjection
Wow! Here's a activity about interjections! After reading a brief definition of this part of speech, young grammarians select an interjection from the provided word bank to add to a sentence.
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Writing with Subordinating Conjunctions
Challenge young grammarians to turn sets of phrases into sentences by adding subordinating conjunctions on a short worksheet.
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Run-on Sentences
Second graders practice using punctuation in run-on sentences. In this punctuation mini-lesson, 2nd graders listen to the book Punctuation Takes a Vacation. They read their own sentences and try to find where they end.
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The Interrupted Quotation
In this interrupted quotation worksheet, students edit sentences for punctuation and correct quotation placement. Students complete this for 22 sentences.
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Grade 3 Handwriting Workbook
What a comprehensive resource! This workbook includes six separate units on writing. Learners begin with printing and then move on to cursive. The handwriting sheets include plenty of practice with letters, numbers, and symbols. Each...
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Oh, You Funny Question Mark
For this punctuation worksheet, students will read a short poem about question marks. Then students will practice writing asking sentences and using question marks.
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Statements and Questions
In this statements and questions worksheet, students rewrite 5 sentences using the correct capital letter and end punctuation. Answers are not given.
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Funny Question Marks
In this punctuation worksheet, students read a poem about a question mark. Students also write their own sentence that asks a question.