Sandhills Community College: The Period

Students write about goals, responsibility, and persistence, and listen to President Obama's speech. In this President Obama instructional activity students create concept webs, listen with a purpose, and list the challenges of our...

Viewers are entertained as well as educated by the illustrations in this colorfully animated PowerPoint focused on run-on sentences.

A very thorough and detailed guide to the use of semicolons in English punctuation. Includes several rules and examples.

Lists, defines and describes the uses of many elements of English punctuation, including the period, comma, semicolon, colon, apostrophe, quotation, hyphen, and dash. Includes several examples.

A brief lesson on the uses of the colon in English punctuation. Includes examples and links for further information.

An excellent and comprehensive guide to the uses of the comma in English punctuation. Includes several uses and several examples. Highly recommended.

A valuable resource for learning about the uses of the apostrophe in English punctuation, including apostrophes with possessive nouns as well as contractions. Provides examples.

A brief look at the hyphen in English punctuation. Includes details concerning three uses of the hyphen and provides several examples.

Class pairs select a prompt from a provided list and tell (and record) their story to their partner. They then examine linguist William Labov's model for natural narratives, and apply his model to their tale. Next, class members watch...

The PBS film, Bronx Princess, launches a study of complex parent-child relationships. Using the provided reading guide, viewers respond to clips from the film and compare Rocky and Yaa’s relationship to other parent-child relationships....