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Lesson Plan
BBC

Lug and the Giant Stork - Capital Letters

For Teachers K - 1st
Capital letters are the star of the show in a wonderful language arts lesson. After a teacher-led demonstration and discussion on capital letters, groups of pupils get together and work on the computer to fix the flashing letters that...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Capitalization and Punctuation

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
First and second graders explore writing conventions. They add question marks or periods to the end of teacher generated sentences on sentence strips. They locate punctuation marks in poems and write original sentences using appropriate...
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Worksheet
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Curated OER

The Secret Garden - Punctuation 2

For Students 4th - 7th
The second in a brief series of worksheets that focus on punctuating paragraphs about Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden, this resource requires learners to add in capital letters and periods. Pupils will need to read...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Friendly Letter to a Leprechaun

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students write friendly letters. In this friendly letter writing lesson, students write a friendly letter to a leprechaun. Students review the parts of a friendly letter then watch the teacher model how to write a friendly letter, then...
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Organizer
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Curated OER

The Secret Garden - Punctuation 1

For Students 4th - 7th
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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Worksheet
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Freeology

Upper and Lowercase Zz

For Students Pre-K - 3rd Standards
The upper and lowercase letter Z is the focus of a handwriting worksheet that challenges scholars to trace and write the letter independently. 
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Workbook
Curated OER

Grade 3 Handwriting Workbook

For Students 2nd - 4th
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Proofreading: Lesson 2

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Identify and develop strategies for proofreading with your class. They read and identify the grammar rules for capitalization, end punctuation, and commas, correct errors as a class, and complete three worksheets. This resource includes...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Punctuation Lesson Plan

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discover how to punctuate a sentence properly. In this punctuation lesson, students participate in an interactive whiteboard lesson to demonstrate how to punctuate a sentence. Students demonstrate how to use periods, questions...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Punctuation Takes a Vacation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review punctuation marks and their functions. They read a story, "Punctuation Takes a Vacation." Given flash cards of punctuation marks, students hold up the appropriate punctuation flash card during the story.
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Curated OER

Big Grammar Book

For Students K - 8th Standards
With this comprehensive language arts resource in your arsenal, you'll never have to look for another grammar activity! Whether you're teaching kindergartners how to write the upper- and lower-case letters of the alphabet, or helping...
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Worksheet
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Curated OER

The Secret Garden - Punctuation 3

For Students 4th - 7th
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...
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Handout
University Center for Learning Assistance

Commas

For Students 5th - 9th
How well do your pupils know comma rules? Clear up confusion with this document, which includes an abundance of information about how and when to use commas as well as a practice exercise. Note: The answers are on the bottom of the page....
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All Together Now: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 1)

For Teachers 1st Standards
All Together Now is the theme of this series of ESL lessons. Provide support to your language learners through games, role play, stories, and discussions all about greeting others, giving commands, telling about themselves, and being...
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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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

American Expression

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students exercise the strategy of reading more fluently with expression through practice and recognizing punctuation marks when reading. They read with expression the book, Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney and a variety of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Computer/Grammar: Dinosaurs

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice computer skills while visiting a dinosaur Website. They write sentences there beginning with assigned letters, circle the beginning capital letter, and underline the ending punctuation.
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Lesson Plan
BBC

Full Stops

For Teachers K - 1st
This is an incredibly detailed and thorough plan. It is all about full stops - which is the British way of saying, "Periods." First-year learners practice the skill of knowing when to use a period, and understand what periods are meant...
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Lesson Plan
BBC

Sweet Tooth - Full Stops

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young writers engage in a lesson which reinforces the concept of when to use periods, "full stops" as they're called, when writing. There is a terrific online activity built into the plan which gives the kids valuable practice, then a...
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Activity
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Shmoop

ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.2

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Semicolons and colons are tricky, and the Common Core creators knows that. If you are stuck on what to teach to make sure your learners can master Common Core skill L.9-10.2 use this resource to fine-tune your content. The multiple...
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Handout
Curated OER

Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
What kind of sentence is it? This can be a complex subject, so don't compound the difficulty by skipping over the topic! It's simple, just have your class read and go over the information here and then complete the included exercise.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fiction and Poetry

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore fictional text and poetry. They explore the story structures used in the types of texts and examine the language patterns used. Students practice tracking text in the correct manner.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Proofreading

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the proofreading process. They practice proofreading for errors in sentence structure, usage, and mechanics. Students develop strategies for proofreading and differentiate between commonly confused words.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Is That Expression in Your Voice Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

For Teachers 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding strategies, 3rd graders, working in groups, write sentences that could be read with expression. Each member of the group takes turns...