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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strategies for Editing: Practice 1 (English I Writing)
You will proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strategies for Editing: Practice 3 (English I Writing)
You will proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Punctuation
Learn strategies to help you edit your writing for correct punctuation.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Punctuation (English I Writing)
Learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct punctuation. L.9-10.2 Cap/Punc/Spell
Other
Sandhills Community College: The Comma
An excellent and comprehensive guide to the uses of the comma in English punctuation. Includes several uses and several examples. Highly recommended.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Online Writing Lab
A great resource for middle-school, high-school, and college writers, with worksheets, articles, model papers, and presentations that will help you with research, grammar, style, job-search and professional writing, and more. Includes...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Proper Punctuation
Need a quick refresher on proper punctuation? This easy to read guide covers common types of punctuation and provides examples. Included are links to practice sites.
Other
Pressbooks: Virginia Western Community College: Let's Get Writing!
This is an open textbook created to assist students in their writing efforts. Topics covered include critical reading, rhetorical analysis, writing arguments, steps in the writing process, rhetorical modes, using credible sources, citing...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Brackets 8
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of brackets. It lists 5 uses for brackets and discusses each one separately with examples showing proper use. The 5 uses are as follows: an insertion, within parentheses, a change in a quotation,...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Commas After Introductions Exercise 2
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with adding commas to introductory phrases in sentences.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: On Track English I Writing: Editing
This site offers links to each section of Writing, Module 8, Lessons 1-9 and Practices 1-3. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions; spell correctly; and edit drafts for...
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: Grammar and Punctuation
This site provides a grammar reference for students. The rules for using dashes, commas, semicolons, coordinating conjunctions, and conjunctive adverb are included. Topics including subject-verb agreement, how to proofread, and twelve...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Punctuation Practice
Students have a tough time differentiating between punctuation marks when writing and especially when reading. It is important that we give students explicit instruction on punctuation to allow them to become more fluent in using them...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Write the Room Punctuation
Using a "Write the Room" activity to identify punctuation motivates students to practice this new skill. Students will place punctuation marks in the proper place using clues from signs around the room. Included is a video of the lesson...