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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Within Sentence Punctuation Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This reference site provides within-sentence punctuation. This site accompanies the Praxis Core Reading Test.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Grammar: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the roles of all of the punctuation marks; it provides a video, small practices in various sections, and a punctuation self-check.
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Illinois State University: Punctuation Made Simple: The Commas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page from "Punctuation Made Simple," features comma use. Brush up on your comma skills with plenty of examples.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Punctuation Between 2 Independent Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What is the correct punctuation between two independent clauses? Use this site to learn more about the rules to follow.
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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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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 11.1: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples that demonstrate how to identify and correctly use commas with coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, and introductory...
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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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The Tongue Untied

University of Oregon the Tongue Untied: Punctuation: Comma

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site features a list of eleven simple rules for comma usage. Come and sharpen your grammar skills when you visit this educational resource.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 13.1: Common Errors in Grammar and Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples that teach how to identify and correct errors in subject/verb agreement, comma splices, sentence fragments, capitalization of titles and...
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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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Other

Pressbooks: Virginia Western Community College: Let's Get Writing!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: On Track English I Writing: Editing

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
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...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Semicolon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What is a semicolon and how do you use it in your writing? Check out this tutorial to learn more about this punctuation mark in English sentence structure.
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Other

A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email: Intonation

For Students 9th - 10th
A good site as a resource for changing tone and voice in the written medium of email. Discusses asterisks, capital letters, punctuation, whitespace, and lower-case letters.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Story Starting Participles

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Roni Schotter's picture book entitled The Boy Who Loved Words is used as the mentor text. This Language Arts Common Core Standards-aligned lesson pre-writing task engages students in writing a collection of ideas of story...
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TES Global

Tes: Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'brien

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this unit, students will investigate Robert C. O'Brien's book, Z for Zechariah. Students will engage in punctuation practice, review parts of speech, and will answer comprehension questions.
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Comma Use Exercise 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the use of Commas.
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Semicolon Use Exercise 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the use of Semicolons.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Quotation Marks

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about how to use quotation marks correctly to quote poetry, prose, and long and short quotes. Also, find guidelines on using quotation marks when writing dialogue and when using other punctuation.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The King's English: Grammar and Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Part of this chapter from the 1908 book by H.W. Fowler provides instructions for punctuating adjectival and adverbial clauses. However, there is a lot of other material on this page to scroll through.
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University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow: Critical Reviews

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is designed to be used by psychology students at the university level, but it provides helpful instruction for anyone writing critical reviews of non-fiction. Instruction includes everything from how to be critical to...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Mla Works Cited Page: Basic Format

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the rules for writing an MLA Works Cited page and provides examples of each type of entry.
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Other

Book Units Teacher: Teaching Comma Rules

For Students 5th Standards
Lots of ideas for teaching Grade 5 students about commas. Includes an anchor chart showing the comma rules they need to understand, four videos, an idea for making a comma rules booklet, and links to additional resources.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Apostrophe

For Students 9th - 10th
What is an apostrophe? Where are apostrophes found in writing? Use this website to learn more about these crazy little punctuation marks.

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