The capitalization rules are strict and inflexible—until you experience the fluid beauty of an Emily Dickinson poem. Ninth graders test their existing knowledge of language arts conventions with the many bent grammar rules in "I Felt a...

Pupils proofread a short paragraph about Carl Sandburg. The errors span capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Useful as a warm-up and language conventions review. Go over it together as a class verbally and have individual...

Practice language convention usage with this brief proofreading exercise. Together your class can verbally correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Ida B. Wells. Then individual learners can rewrite it or mark the hard...

This site offers links to each section of Writing, Module 8, Lessons 1-9 and Practices 1-3. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions; spell correctly; and edit drafts for...

This lesson focuses on finding and fixing grammar errors in your writing. It includes strategies for locating errors such as reading your paper aloud to see if your are missing words. It also provides practice with subject-verb agreement...

This lesson's focus is limited to the editing process for writing conventions: subject-verb agreement, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

In this lesson, you will learn about the conventions of capitalization. This lesson will help remind you to separate texting, where capitalization is optional, from academic writing, which is governed by a specific set of rules.

Punctuation is the point of this lesson. You'll learn to put the right dots and squiggles in the appropriate places in your writing. You'll review the conventions of punctuation used in academic English. Then you will apply what you...