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Punctuation Sentence Maze
In this punctuation worksheet, students connect words in a maze to form sentences that require them to use apostrophes, quotation marks, hyphens, and commas correctly.
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Summer Bridge Activities
Youngsters start by writing a story about going to outer space. They then solve math word problems, match words to their correct meaning by using a dictionary, solve multiplication and division problems, and add the correct prefixes and...
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What's Missing?
Can you tell which punctuation mark is missing throughout this PowerPoint game? Each slide displays 10 punctuation marks and an empty spot for the missing one. Challenge your detectives to be the first one to figure out which mark is...
Student Handouts
Misspellings and More Mischievous Mishaps Worksheet
Keep your spellers and punctuators in tip-top shape with some practice with commonly misspelled words. Learners choose the correct option from two choices and then rewrite each sentence.
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Grammar Practice Workbook
To an English teacher, the only sound worse than nails on a chalkboard is a student using improper grammar. Make poor grammar a problem of the past with this extensive collection of worksheets that covers everything from sentence...
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Comma Exercises
For this grammar worksheet, students identify the comma rules by reading over them for review. They perform independent practice and the answers are included for the 20 sentences.
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Short Answers With Can
In this using the word "can" in short sentences instructional activity, students read questions, observe and match pictures, observe picture clues, and write short answers with the words Yes or No and commas beginning the sentences....
Teacher Created Resources
What Did You Say?
Punctuating dialogue properly is a skill that your young pupils will use for years to come. Allow individuals the chance to practice adding commas and quotation marks to sentences that are lacking punctuation. The activity here includes...
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ESL Grammar - Comma Splice
Students fix comma splices. In this ESL lesson, students recognize comma splices and find ways to fix them. They complete a worksheet finding comma splices and correct sentences.
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Who Said It?
For this quotation marks worksheet, young scholars practice using quotation marks and commas by selecting a sentence from the sentence bank to complete each blank.
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What Did You Say?
In this quotation worksheet, students read the punctuation rules for the use of quotation marks and commas in a direct quote. They insert the quotation marks in 5 sentences, and place the comma and quotation marks in 5 more.
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Nouns and Noun Markers
In this nouns and noun markers worksheet, students write an "N" above all nouns in a set of 10 sentences, circle all noun markers and insert missing commas.
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The Secret Garden - Punctuation 1
Proper punctuation is important. Focus on capital letters and periods by presenting your class with a paragraph that doesn't include either. Pupils determine where each sentence ends and begins, adding in capital letters and periods...
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Writing the Date
In this language arts instructional activity, students identify why a comma is used between the date and the year when writing the date. Then they copy the dates listed and use a comma when necessary.
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Semicolon or Comma?
In this joining clauses with punctuation instructional activity, students read the sentences and add a semicolon or comma on the blank spaces and then create additional sentences using appropriate punctuation marks. Students write 16...
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Semicolons
This is a fabulous worksheet! Grammar enthusiasts practice the art of correctly using a semicolon. They insert a semicolon to combine three independent clauses, three conjunctive adverbs to independent clauses, and to separate items in...
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Editor Travels U.S. Fixing Errors on Signs
An interesting article on editors helps young writers understand the conventions of written English. They read a news article about an editor traveling America correcting spelling and punctuation errors on signs. They discuss proper...
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Proofreading, Revising, & Editing Skills Success
Some self-paced writing resources are just better than others. This one is great. The 205-page packet includes exercises on every aspect of the writing process, from crafting sentences and paragraphs, to proofreading, revising, and...
Compound Sentence Worksheet
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To Quote or Not to Quote
Quotation marks are the focus of this resource. In it, youngsters discover how to correctly use punctuation marks. It is meant to be carried out over a three-day period. You could shorten it, but I wouldn't. The activities are...
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Non-Defining Relative Pronouns Exercise
Writing flows better with complex and compound sentences. Teach your learners how to combine sentences using relative clauses. This worksheet has 10 questions, but there are no examples provided. Consider providing at least a few...
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Write Some Dialogue
Students write dialogue. For this character development lesson students use direct or indirect speech to include a confrontation between two characters in their story. Students portray the emotions of the characters in addition to what...
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Combining with Participial Phrases
Combine participial phrases and creative writing with this lesson, which is equally helpful for writing skills and conventions. After a mini-lesson on participial phrases and reading the picture book Dancing in the Wings, pupils use a...
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Colons, Semicolons, and Dashes
Colons, semi-colons, and dashes are three of the most misused punctuation marks! This activity allows learners to better understand when it's appropriate to use each one, and gives them some practice in doing so. There are six sentences...
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