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New York English Language Arts Test: Grade 6
This comprehensive end-of-year language arts test requires that sixth-graders demonstrate their listening, writing, grammar, spelling, and punctuation skills. It includes 9 essay/short answer questions; however, the story, "A Winning...
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TapTyping
Familiarize your pupils with how to type by tapping on a tablet screen. They will master the tablet keyboard with a set of lessons that get progressively more advanced. Track progress with a speed test every few lessons.
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Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Read All About It!
Develop an online newspaper covering the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The class publishes their newspaper on the school's Web site and analyze both primary and secondary sources.
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Every Day Edit - Benedict Arnold
For this everyday editing instructional activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Benedict Arnold. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every Day Edit - Author Scott O'Dell
For this everyday editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about author Scott O'Dell. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Every Day Edit - National Poetry Month
For this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about National Poetry Month. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
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Every-Day Edit: Bessie Coleman
In this everyday editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Bessie Coleman. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Second Grade Skills Unit 3: Kids Excel
The unit offers second graders skills practice in tricky spelling and words, grammar—nouns and punctuation, reading decodable texts, and writing a personal narrative. Lessons begin with a warm-up and go into a concept review, word work,...
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Language Expression and Mechanics
In this language arts worksheet, 3rd graders focus on the correct usage of verbs, punctuation, and capitalization. Students respond to four multiple choice questions.
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Using Quotes as "Thought Shots"
Students explore how to use quotation marks in writing to add dialogue to a paper. In groups, students observe pictures and add quotations to them. Students follow rules of punctuation and capitalization as they proofread and edit each...
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Every Day Edit - Sir Isaac Newton
Practice everyday! Have learners correct grammatical errors in a short paragraph about Sir Isaac Newton. The errors are in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every-day Edit: Hobo Turned Poet
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...
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Paragraph Editing
This worksheet includes a list of proofreading marks and asks readers to edit the paragraph provided. The exercise is replicated twice on the page so that you can cut reproductions in half to save paper. There is also a key.
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Every-day Edit: Rubber Duck Voyagers
Learners correct errors in spelling and usage in a quick, six-line proofreading exercise. Makes a nice warm-up and reinforces editing skills. I've seen work like this called Daily Oral Language (D.O.L) practice; the class reviews the...
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Words by Heart: Level 3 Writing Assignment
Get in touch with the emotional side of writing by reading Words By Heart. The writing assignment helps learners make personal connections with the text and hone their writing skills by exploring a time that they had to forgive...
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The "Write" Stuff: Strategies and Conventions for Imaginative Writing
Fifth graders develop and practice the steps involved in imaginative writing. They follow the steps/worksheets included and write imaginative stories of their own.
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Stop Talking
Third, fourth, and fifth graders practice the correct usage of grammar rules through the editing and correction of a variety of poorly written paragraphs. You create (or find) the paragraphs, as they are not provided here. And be sure to...
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Pretest and Present Project
Students build their own city. In this grammar lesson, students view ads for popular vacation spots. Students take note of the correct capitalization in the ads. Students then create their own city and make a travel brochure for that...
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Past, Present, and Future: Career Exploration and Planning
Tenth graders write an autobiography about their future. In this career education lesson plan, 10th graders write about the future based on their career goals. Students troubleshoot possible obstacles to fulfilling a...
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Capitalization and Punctuation
In this capitalization and punctuation worksheet, students put the missing capital letters and full stops in 12 sentences as well as in 3 paragraphs.
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Capitalization Practice
In this capitalization activity, learners circle capitalization errors and add end marks to sentences, capitalize proper nouns, and edit sentences to correct.
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Capitalization
In this capitalization activity, students circle the names of people and places in the first chart. In the second chart, students capitalize the words that require it and finish with three capitalization sentence activities.
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Capitalization
In this capitalization learning exercise, students rewrite sentences correcting the capitalization mistakes. Students rewrite 12 sentences on this learning exercise.
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A Sentence for Life
What is a sentence? Second graders will explore the components of a sentence in the ten lessons of this unit. The subject, predicate, the process of proofreading, punctuation, and sentence sequence are analyzed in this unit. Handouts and...