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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 learning exercise could be...
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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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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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Possessives
What is a possessive? Review the information at the top of the page before asking your class to work on this independently. For the first eight questions, your learners add the necessary s's and apostrophes when appropriate. For the...
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Apostrophes Used in Contractions and Possessions
In this writing worksheet, students read about the proper use of apostrophes in possessives and contractions. They decide if 10 statements are written correctly and correct any errors that they find.
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Apostrophes for Contraction and Ownership
For this apostrophes worksheet, 4th graders join 5 pairs of words to create contractions with apostrophes. Students then place the missing apostrophes into the text to show ownership.
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The Belonging Apostrophe
In this apostrophe worksheet, students shorten a phrase by putting an apostrophe showing ownership into that phrase. Students shorten 15 phrases and put 10 words with apostrophes into their own sentences.
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The Power Of Possessives
The whole class with get when to use an apostrophe after this activity. They use apostrophes to show possession or ownership. This activity includes a discussion starter, a practice exercise, a story activity, and a practice worksheet.
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Here's an Instant Activity for December 17, 2007
Fourth graders complete a spelling activity to learn how to spell with apostrophes. In this spelling lesson, 4th graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher. Students then complete the Instant Activity worksheet for...
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Possessives
In this possessives worksheet, learners read 8 sentences, circle the words that are missing apostrophes, and rewrite the words with the apostrophe. Students also write eight sentences showing ownership of 8 given words.
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Commas In Lists
In this punctuation worksheet, students rewrite ten sentences, correctly inserting commas in lists of objects. Students then fill in the blanks in ten sentences with commas where needed.
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Introducing Grammar: Grammar, Spelling, and Punctuation
Focusing on correct grammar usasge as well as the concept of language evolution, this conventions lesson prompts middle and high schoolers to examine the structure of sentences and word classes (parts of speech). Use the three activites...
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Possessive
In this possessive worksheet, students review and discuss how to recognize whether a plural noun is possessive or not and decide if five sentences are correct or wrong.
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Pronouns
In these pronouns worksheets, students review the definitions of different types of pronouns and then complete three pages of activities to help them with the pronoun types.