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PBS

Pbs: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Proper Punctuation for Titles

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This video focuses on correctly punctuating titles. Small works (short stories, essays, magazine and newspaper articles, etc.) are indicated with the use of quotation marks. Larger works, such as books or movies, are indicated either...
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Other

Tidewater Community College Writing Center: Practical Punctuation Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains practical and useful information about the following: commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, parentheses and brackets, ellipsis points, quotation marks, and apostrophes. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
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Other

Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides the answers to six frequently asked questions regarding punctuation. For example, "Should I use a comma before AND in a series?" The question "Do commas and periods go inside our outside the closing quotation mark?" is...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Makes a Sentence?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This instructional activity will help young scholars recognize that spoken sentences are represented in written language by specific sequences of words, beginning with a capital letter and ending with a punctuation mark. This...
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Other

Marking His Place: Ben Jonson's Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article proposes a theory for the way the English playwright spelled and puncuated his name with a colon: Ben:Jonson.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Mini Lesson on Semicolons

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Practical lesson plan on learners' use of the semicolon, modeled on Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Grade Lit and Comp: Grammar Ii and Technical Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to a unit on grammar and technical writing; it includes capitalization and punctuation. It provides links to several sites having to do with punctuation and capitalization rules.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Comma Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th
In this learning module, students will learn more about commas. A PowerPoint lesson and reinforcement worksheets are provided. This module is designed to support all students via hands-on approaches.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Subject Verb Agreement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a self-grading quiz on subject-verb agreement. Students read an article with boxes after punctuation marks, and decide if the mark should be removed.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Ellipsis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Instructional resource providing notes and examples on the rules of using the ellipsis. A quiz link is provided.

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