Explore indirect and direct characterization and review rules of punctuation. After a review, middle schoolers complete a short worksheet, labeling sentences as an example of a direct or indirect characterization. In groups, they play a...

Should that pause in your sentence be long, short, or somewhere in between? Practice using commas and semicolons with a series of grammar activities. High schoolers read a series of sentences and paragraphs and decide where they should...

Practice punctuation with a quick exercise. Class members fill in either a period or a question mark at the end of each of 14 sentences. A brief explanation of when to use a period versus a question mark is included.

Turn your youngsters into little editors with an exercise that focuses on some of the most basic and important writing conventions: capitalization and punctuation. Learners fix five sentences and then rewrite a sentence using...

First and second graders explore writing conventions. They add question marks or periods to the end of teacher generated sentences on sentence strips. They locate punctuation marks in poems and write original sentences using appropriate...

Elementary schoolers explore writing conventions. First they play a ball toss game to practice spelling high frequency words. (A link to a 2nd grade list is attached.) The class works together to correct spelling, punctuation, and...

Practice punctuation as well as capitalization with a straightforward grammar exercise. Learners determine if several sentences use proper grammar or not and then write a sentence using correct capitalization and grammar.

Students explore various punctuation marks used in writing.  In this lesson plan, students read an article on punctuation, then complete several exercises to practice what they learned.

Fourth graders put elbow macaroni where commas and quotation marks are supposed to be in sentences. In this punctuation lesson plan, 4th graders use the pasta to define where punctuation is missing in sentence strips.

Students identify and use hyphens, dashes, and semicolons. Using teacher created cards, they correct sentences written on the board by the instructor.

Explore appositives, phrases that immediately follow the noun they modify, using sentence strips, examples, and collaborative learning. The class works together to identify appositives and use commas to properly punctuate them. Partners...

Identify and develop strategies for proofreading with your class. They read and identify the grammar rules for capitalization, end punctuation, and commas, correct errors as a class, and complete three worksheets. This resource includes...

Daily practice develops skills! Use this half-sheet to help learners correct grammatical errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Today's topic is a hot-air balloon flight. 

Japan's coming of age is the background for this practice sheet. Pupils correct mistakes in a short paragraph. There are errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. 

Who was William Penn? Learn about him while correcting grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph. There are errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

Everyone loves pigs! Give this short, half-sheet editing practice to your middle schoolers to develop editing skills while they read about popular pig movies. They search for errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

For this everyday editing learning exercise, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about John Philip Sousa. The errors range from punctuation, spelling, grammar, and capitalization.

In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the Hiroshima bombing. The errors range from punctuation, spelling, grammar, and capitalization.

In this everyday editing learning exercise, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the noted American poet Ogden Nash. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

In this everyday editing instructional activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about President Nixon and his resignation. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

In this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The errors range from grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.