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Punctuation Game

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify and use hyphens, dashes, and semicolons. Using teacher created cards, they correct sentences written on the board by the instructor.
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Handout
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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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Activity
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Every Day Edit - Modern Olympic Games

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the modern Olympic games. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Lesson Plan
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Play Ball: A Major League Review Game

For Teachers K - 12th
Apply the game of baseball to a fun review activity. Pupils earn a "base" for each subject question that they answer correctly. This activity can be modified and used for any subject area, including math, social studies, and language arts.
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PPT
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Halloween Grammar Practice

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
I don't say this often, but this slide show is fantastic! Engage your learners in an exciting, Halloween-themed, animated, and audio-infused presentation to practice basic grammar and punctuation. They will correct several sentences, and...
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Worksheet
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Apostrophe Errors

For Students 7th - 9th
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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Punctuation Review/Tic-tac-toe

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders play a tic-tac-toe game in pairs. In this language arts lesson, one student uses an X to show the correct sentences, while the other student uses an O to show incorrect sentences. Students use a T-chart to record the...
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Stop Sign Punctuation

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use punctuation and capitalization. In this grammar lesson students use stop signs in the place of periods. Students cut out sentences and put stop signs in appropriate places. Students indicate capitalization where needed.
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Worksheet
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Test Your Grammar Skills - Sentence Punctuation 1

For Students 4th - 5th
In this grammar learning exercise, students rewrite sentences with capital letters and correct punctuation. Ten sentences are to be corrected and rewritten.
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Activity
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Every Day Edit - "Hammerin' Hank" Aaron

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Hank Aaron. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Lesson Plan
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Fanatically Grammatically Correct

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Research guidelines for correct usage, then explore how creative writers employ punctuation as an essential tool in their craft. Secondary classes create board games to teach elementary school learners how to properly punctuate. From the...
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Activity
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Every Day Edit - New Jersey "The Garden State"

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the state of New Jersey. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Activity
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Every Day Edit - Ederle Swims English Channel

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing instructional activity learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the first woman to swim the English Channel. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
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Activity
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Every Day Edit - Jesse Owens

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Jesse Owens. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Activity
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Every Day Edit - Michael Jordan

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Michael Jordan. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Worksheet
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Test Your Grammar Skills

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this grammar skills lesson, students read the descriptions and select the correct punctuation mark for each example. Students complete 10 examples.
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Unit Plan
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Constructing and Using Different Types of Sentences with Support from The Shurley Grammar Method

For Teachers 6th
Students analyze parts of speech, sentence structure, and ver usage in this ten lesson unit on grammar. Through games, activities, assignments, and printed material, the concepts are supported and reinforced in a creative way.
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Worksheet
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Punctuation Marks 1- Test Your Spelling Skills

For Students 4th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students write the name of 10 punctuation marks that are shown at the top of the page. They fill in the blanks at the lower half of the page with the names of marks such as the exclamation mark, question mark,...
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Proofreading Relay

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders play a proofreading relay game. In this proofreading lesson, 6th graders are broken up into two teams.  Each team has an incorrect sentence and they need to fix it one at time by checking for mistakes in grammar,...
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Organizer
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15 Common Grammar Mistakes in Written and Oral Work

For Students 5th - 12th
In this grammar worksheet, students will read 5 of the 15 most common grammatical mistakes in oral and written language. There are 2 examples of each mistake and 2 examples of how to correct the mistake.
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Worksheet
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Test Your Grammar Skills

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Question tags are tough for English language learners. Print this practice sheet to help them use could, would, and should correctly. Twenty questions make up this learning exercise, and an answer page is included. 
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Activity
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Every-Day Edit: Basketball's Beginnings

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about basketball's beginnings. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Activity
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Every Day Edit - Yankee Stadium

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Yankee Stadium. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Comma Worksheet 7

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar activity, students use commas to set off nonrestrictive elements, parenthetical expressions, transitional connectives and contrasted elements in eighteen sentences.