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Handout
Syracuse City School District

Capitalization and Punctuation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How many of the pupils in your language arts class can differentiate between a colon and a semicolon? Clarify common conventions, including end punctuation, proper capitalization, and sentence structure, with a series of helpful grammar...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Punctuation

For Students 9th - 12th
Should that pause in your sentence be long, short, or somewhere in between? Practice using commas and semicolons with a series of grammar activities. High schoolers read a series of sentences and paragraphs and decide where they should...
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PPT
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Punctuation 2: Other than Commas

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Thoroughly cover the nuances of apostrophes, quotation marks, dashes, hyphens, colons, and semi-colons. Intended for higher-level English classes, the examples given pertain to tricky rules and formal language. There are no animations or...
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Website
University of North Carolina

Commas

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Every time you pause while reading, you should insert a comma, right? Not necessarily. Using a comma to indicate a pause is just one of the myths addressed in a handout related to the pesky punctuation mark. After reviewing common...
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Handout
San José State University

Possessive Apostrophes

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
A great review of possesive nouns and how to add apostrophes. Clearly demonstrating where to place the apostrophe for different nouns, the resource also notes some tricky exceptions. Reinforce the concept with a little practice putting...
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Workbook
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McGraw Hill

Grammar Practice Workbook

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
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.
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Worksheet
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Colons, Dashes, Hyphens, and Parentheses

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
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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PPT
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Semicolons: Where Should They Go?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Do you know how to use a semicolon? Are you sure? Everybody can benefit from a review! This presentation goes through a detailed explanation of when and how to use them. There are examples and a quiz at the end. A handy resource to use...
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Worksheet
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Punctuation

For Students 7th - 10th
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Combining with Participial Phrases

For Teachers 4th - 9th
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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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Conjunctive Adverbs and Independent Clauses

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
Conjunctive adverbs are not conjunctions, but they can function as conjunctions when paired with appropriate punctuation. If that's too complicated for language arts students, have them work on an activity that provides a word bank of...
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Interactive
Curated OER

How to Integrate Quotations

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
Quotations add validity to an argument or an analysis, but how do you integrate them into your writing? Several examples are provided, and your emerging writers will surely benefit from looking at different ways to add quotations....
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Handout
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Calloway County Schools

Dialogue Rules, Worksheet, and Writing Assignment

For Students 3rd - 10th Standards
Punctuating dialogue properly can be tricky, but your pupils can become punctuation masters with practice. This resource includes an explanatory page that describes the rules of writing dialogue and provides examples. On the second page,...
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Worksheet
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Find the Error 43

For Students 6th - 12th
In this grammar worksheet, students review a newspaper advertisement and list the grammatical errors they find. Grammatical errors may include: apostrophes, articles, spelling, singulars, plurals, and punctuation.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Subordinating Conjunctions and Subordinate Clauses

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
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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Worksheet
Curated OER

Separating Run-together Sentences With a Period

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite ten pairs of run-on sentences into two complete sentences each by utilizing periods and capital letters.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Quotation Marks Worksheet 1

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students read three passages to find and correct ten pairs of quotation marks that are missing. Students share their responses with their classmates.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Capitalization Worksheet 1

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate word capitalized correctly in parentheses that completes fifteen sentences grammatically correct.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Commas 101: The Basics

For Students 7th - 9th
Clear up common questions about commas with this handy resource! Useful as a reference page as well as a grammar activity, it presents six different rules for comma usage, including fanboys, lists, and parenthetical words and phrases. A...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Independent and Subordinate Clauses

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Middle schoolers identify independent and subordinate clauses and differentiate between the two. They discuss sentences, complete a practice worksheet, write independent clauses, and identify independent and subordinate clauses in the...
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Worksheet
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Apostrophe Usage

For Students 6th - 9th
Helpful as a review activity and a reference sheet for your middle schoolers' binders, this worksheet clarifies the proper ways to use apostrophes. Indicating that they should be used in three cases ("weird" plurals, contractions, and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Avoiding Run-On Sentences (I)

For Students 7th - 9th
Eliminate run-on sentences! This practice opportunity highlights run-on sentence errors and how to fix them. Examples are shown, and learners are given two options: using semi-colons or commas and coordinating conjunctions. Help polish...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Question Marks, Quotation Marks, and Parentheses Quiz

For Students 7th - 9th
In this online interactive grammar quiz instructional activity, students answer 12 multiple choice questions regarding question marks, quotation marks, and parentheses. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Mechanics Help Using the Comma with Formal Letters

For Students 6th - 10th
In this worksheet, students analyze different parts of a letter and insert the appropriate punctuation including a comma, period, colon, question mark and semicolon.

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