PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Peacock
This Nature video segment features the beautiful bird known for its iridescent tail, the peacock.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Quotation Marks Exercise
Practice using quotation marks and italics in this brief exercise. Check your answers when you're done.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Commas: Exercise #2
Put in commas wherever they are needed in the ten sentences provided. Check your answers when you are done.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Punctuation Exercise
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with punctuating sentences.
University of Calgary
Univ. Of Calgary: Punctuation Rules Periods
The informational site which includes helpful details concerning the rules, uses, and misuses of periods in the English language. Includes information about the period at the end of sentences as well as in abbreviations. Also, provides...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: An Educational Companion to Eats, Shoots & Leaves [Pdf]
Eats, Shoots & Leaves illustrates the necessity of correct punctuation in order to convey intended meaning. Punctuation rules are stated here in a concise manner with accompanying exercises/keys.
Other
Using English: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
A comprehensive A-Z index of grammar terms with explanations and examples. Each entry provides links to activities and other resources available on the site for more practice on that aspect of grammar. Suggested activities are often...
Other
National Punctuation Day
This site is dedicated to the importance of punctuation in writing. Find information about each punctuation mark, examples of bad punctuation, and links to punctuation videos and songs.
Savvas Learning
Pearson Longman: Sentence Resources for Writers: Commas
A grammar activity/assessment for the high school student on using commas correctly. With ten multiple choice questions that can be submitted to be scored and an essay question.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar Ii and Technical Writing: Review
This lesson focuses on capitalization and punctuation including links to practices and quizzes on capitalization, commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Grade Lit and Comp: Grammar Ii and Technical Writing
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.
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: Top 6 Common Comma Problems (Infographic)
The following comma issues are explained, along with corrections, on this infographic: comma splices, interrupters, serial commas, interchangeable adjectives, introductory words, and introductory dependent clauses.
TES Global
Tes: Grammar and Punctuation Worksheets: I and Me
[Free Registration/Login Required] This TES downloadable resource can be used as an assessment tool or as a reinforcement aide. Students will learn about the pronouns "I" and "me" as they are placed in the context of several sentences.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Looking at Punctuation
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to high interest articles. Students will participate in reading aloud from various texts and analyzing punctuation in sentences. Students will follow author models...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Brackets
This slideshow lesson focuses on brackets by providing background information and uses including the following: clarify details, adding emphasis, modifying quoted material, and marking errors in quotations using [sic]. It provides...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Colons
This video lesson focuses on the rules for using colons. Includes a multiple choice quiz to check for understanding. [2:28] L.9-10.2b Colons
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Colons and Dashes
This lesson focuses on colons and dashes: it includes why and how to use them and practice using them. It offers a slide show and a YouTube video covering colons and a slide show and a YouTube video covering dashes, including how dashes...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Colons and Dashes
This tutorial offers two slideshows: one for colons and one for dashes. They each state the purpose of the mark and tell when they are used along with examples.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Divided Quotation Punctuation
This slideshow lesson focuses on divided (split) quotations and how to punctuate them. It presents four uses of the divided quote, explains how to punctuate each, and provides examples.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Slash Marks
This video lesson focuses on the uses of the slash mark; it explains the purposes of the slash mark and when not to use it. It also discusses when to use the slash and how to write it between words, in poetry, and in URL addresses.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Appositives
This slideshow lesson focuses on appositives by defining them, showing they can have modifiers, explaining when to use/not use commas, and how to use dashes, parenthesis, and colons with appositives.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Appositives
This lesson focuses on appositives including the definition and the two purposes: to rename a noun or to add extra description. It provides 5 practice sentences for students to identify the appositives with answers and explanation to...
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Editing and Proofreading Strategies
A detailed source for professional editing and proofreading strategies. Links on the right offer several pages of text for both editing and proofreading, including guidelines and samples for each.
Savvas Learning
Pearson Longman: Sentence Resources for Writers: Overview of Punctuation
A grammar assessment for the high school student to practice recognizing and writing sentences with correct word use, punctuation and mechanics. Includes ten multiple choice questions that can be submitted to be scored and an essay...