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Possessive Nouns: Yours, Mine, and the Smiths'
Where do you put that apostrophe when a noun becomes possessive? Use a set of lessons and worksheets on possessive nouns in your elementary grammar unit.
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The Mighty Apostrophe
Here is a well-designed presentation on apostrophes and their many uses. The apostrophe is used in many different ways, and this PowerPoint does a great job of showing how it's used. There is a nice interactive component built in, and...
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Rules for Using Apostrophes
Here's a comprehensive, information packet for your grammarians learning how to use apostrophes. The first two pages detail the use of the apostrophe (along with examples and clear explanation), while the last two pages contain a...
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Apostrophe Usage
Helpful as a review activity and a reference sheet for your middle schoolers' binders, this learning exercise clarifies the proper ways to use apostrophes. Indicating that they should be used in three cases ("weird" plurals,...
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Apostrophe Errors
If you're tired of seeing it's instead of its"and who's instead of whose, this could be a great resource for you. Simple and straightforward, it provides eighteen opportunities for young learners to identify and correct words with...
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Apostrophes C and D
Oh me, oh my! Apostrophes can really help clarify (or confuse) a reader. Help your emerging writers use apostrophes correctly in their written work. Two worksheets are provided here, both focusing on the possessive case and adding the...
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UWF Writing Lab: Rules of Thumb for Possessives/Apostrophes
Clarify apostrophe rules with this straightforward presentation about possessives. With specific examples of confusing rules (apostrophe and s after nouns that end in s, or just an apostrophe?), the slide show will help your class fix...
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Possessive Apostrophes
The apostrophe is a punctuation mark that is often incorrectly-used. This short, but effective, presentation addresses that fact. One way to use them is when showing possession in writing. Learners are coached on when to use possessive...
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Apostrophes
Here is some very good, interactive practice for your class regarding when they should, and should not, use apostrophes. Clear examples are given, and learners have ample opportunities to practice the skill. Instant feedback is given for...
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Apostrophes Worksheet
Send your pupils on a hunt for the missing apostrophes! There are more than 20 missing from the paragraph, and it is the job of your class members to find at least 20. The paragraph includes various situations in which apostrophes are...
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Grammar Worksheets: Apostrophe Errors
Do your young grammarians confuse their it’s and its? Their they’re, there, and their? You’re lucky because help is here! After a brief but succinct explanation of the proper use of apostrophes and homophones, learners show what they've...
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Apostrophes A and B
Review the different rules for apostrophes before assigning your class this two-page learning exercise. Both pages focus on adding an apostrophe where needed. Answers are not included here.
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Apostrophe Review
Looking for a set of apostrophe worksheets? Need review sheets for the upcoming grammar test? Here is a two-page packet that teaches and provides practice using apostrophes as contractions and to show possession.
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When to Use Apostrophes
It's tricky but it's essential. It's the apostrophe, of course. And this video is all about its usage.
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Apostrophe Catastrophe
Avoid punctuation errors that have you wondering whether a word is plural or possessive. Learners practice adding in apostrophes to contractions and possessive words by rewriting each sentence correctly.
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WRR9: Apostrophes
In these apostrophe worksheets, students practice the rules and uses of apostrophes in a variety of exercises to advance their punctuation skills.
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Apostrophes and Contractions
Learners make contractions with the two words given, and fill in the correct placement of the apostrophe. They complete 14 words.
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Apostrophes and Quotation Marks
After a brief explanation of two uses for apostrophes (ownership and contractions) learners are asked to choose the correct word in 10 sentences. The same pattern is repeated for the use of quotation marks. The worksheet could be used...
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Writing Process: Edit, Apostrophe
Teach youngsters about the apostrophe with this writing process practice worksheet. Learners read five sentences and add in apostrophes to indicate ownership, writing the correctly punctuated words on the lines below each sentence. This...
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Apostrophes - How and When to Use Them
Apostrophes are a widely-used punctuation mark. This presentation shows pupils the two main reasons for using apostrophes, then has them test their knowledge by working with examples. Although short, this PowerPoint is packed with lots...
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Rules of Thumb for Possessives/Apostrophes
Examples of incorrectly used or absent apostrophes mark nine of these entertaining, yet demoralizing slides. In order to leave the reader inspired to write well, the majority of the slides give examples of how to use apostrophes...
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Possessive Apostrophes
Apostrophes are important when indicating ownership. Have third graders rewrite several sentences to include possessive apostrophes, both singular and plural. A great addition to a proofreading unit or a warm-up grammar activity.
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Possessive Apostrophes
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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Poetry Reading and Analysis Worksheet - "Apostrophe to the Ocean"
If your pupils "love not man the less, but nature more," they will enjoy this poetry activity. The first two pages provide the full text of "Apostrophe to the Ocean" by Lord Byron, which middle schoolers can annotate and highlight. The...