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Commas in a Series; Making an Advertisement!
Language arts learners practice using commas in a series while designing their own advertisement! This creative assignment calls for learners to create their own visual advertisement describing a product of their choice. Their poster...
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Commas
Help your pupils punctuate properly! This particular learning exercise focuses on commas and requires learners to write original sentences that fulfill certain comma requirements.
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Eva's Code
Students understand the importance of punctuation in a sentence. In this codes lesson, students write a pen pal letter using codes for the punctuation. Students send a key to break the code if needed.
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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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Commas-Exercise 4
In this comma learning exercise, students read sentences, add commas if needed, or put an X boxes within the sentence if they believe no comma is necessary.
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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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Commas - Exercise 2
Use this resource to reinforce punctuation and sentence structure skills in your grammar unit. Middle schoolers read the sentences and choose the option that corrects the error in comma usage within the sentence. The questions are...
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Commas exercise 5
In this constructing complete sentences worksheet, students read parts of sentences including words and punctuation marks and rearrange them to create complete sentences. Students write twenty answers.
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Commas
In these punctuation worksheets, students review the definition of a comma and its uses in series and direct address. Students then complete three pages of activities for commas.
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Interjections
Teach your class that they can use interjections to make their writing more interesting. Individuals read a selection of sentences from their book using great expression and then explain to the teacher how interjections can make their...
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Spelling, Capitalization, and Punctuation
Elementary schoolers explore writing conventions. First they play a ball toss game to practice spelling high frequency words. (A link to a 2nd grade list is attached.) The class works together to correct spelling, punctuation, and...
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Smart Quotes Mini-Lesson
Prepare for an interview project with a set of worksheets about asking questions and quoting people. After completing a grammar exercise about quotation marks, kids write out the questions they want to ask their interviewee, and record...
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Abbreviations
In this grammar activity, students read and edit six sentences by correcting the abbreviations and acronyms within the sentence. Additionally, students match five abbreviations with their meaning.
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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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E.T. Write Home
Students read the book, The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System, and discuss the planets visited by the characters in the book. They write journal entries from the viewpoint of E.T., writing letters home describing his travels in...
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Show You Care
Students construct a four-line poem to be used on the inside of a Valentine's Day card. They use a digital camera to show themselves to their "buddies" (local nursing home patients) who receive the cards on Valentine's Day.
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Alien Pen Pals
Students write a friendly letter to an Alien Pen Pal including details about the planet Earth.