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Proofreading: Lesson 2
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...
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Review and Quiz on Punctuation CS
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...
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Capitalization and Punctuation
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...
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Highway of Words
The punctuation police are here! Dress up as a police officer, and teach your young learners the importance of using correct punctuation. Two poorly written paragraphs are presented to the learners, and they have to correct the errors in...
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Spelling, Capitalization, and Punctuation
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...
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Punctuation
Middle schoolers practice using periods, question marks, and exclamation points correctly. In this punctuation lesson, students review punctuation rules and practice. Middle schoolers practice together then work independently.
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Stop Sign Punctuation
Students use punctuation and capitalization. In this grammar lesson students use stop signs in the place of periods. Students cut out sentences and put stop signs in appropriate places. Students indicate capitalization where needed.
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Laws and Rules
First graders participate in a role play about laws and rules where they portray an authority figure, or portray someone who has to obey the law. In this sociology and law lesson plan, 1st graders discuss the purpose of laws and rules....
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End of Unit Assessment, Part 1, Continued: Revising Vocabulary and Conventions based on Feedback
Howdy, partner! Scholars partner up to look at the last two rows in the writing rubric. After discussing the details in the rubric about organization and conventions, learners use colored writing tools to circle feedback in their...
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Language Arts: Punctuation and Characterization
Students prepare for a test on punctuation and characterization by completing practice assignments. While completing the assignment, they note the difference between direct and indirect characterization and explain how punctuation...
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The Interrupted Quotation
In this interrupted quotation worksheet, students edit sentences for punctuation and correct quotation placement. Students complete this for 22 sentences.
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Smart Quotes Mini-Lesson
Prepare for an interview project with a set of worksheets about asking questions and quoting people. After completing a grammar exercise about quotation marks, kids write out the questions they want to ask their interviewee, and record...
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Apostrophes - possession
Students examine the use of apostrophes. From a given reading, students locate all words with apostrophes. Using these words as examples, students discuss rules for using apostrophes. Students match a person an an object from a list...
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Conventions: Quotation Marks
Fifth graders determine the difference between indirect and direct quotations. In this grammar lesson, 5th graders recognize that direct quotations have quotation marks and understand what the rules are for using quotation marks.
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Rules for Using Commas
In this comma usage worksheet, students review when to use commas and then add commas, as needed, to twenty different sentences.
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Pendemonium - The Posse in Australia
Students revise letters focusing their revision on comma and periods usage. In this creative grammar lesson, students watch a video on commas and periods, write a letter to a partner without the use of commas or periods, and revise a...
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Conventions-Interjections
Fifth graders discuss interjections reviewing them to be words or phrases that express excitement or strong emotion. For this language arts lesson, 5th graders understand that commas or exclamation marks are used to separate...
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Learning To Use Quotation Marks
Students explore the use of quotation marks. In this grammar lesson, students read dialogue and explore the rules of quotation mark use as they practice using the marks on a worksheet assignment.
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A Famous Speech
Students explore the rules of direct/indirect narration. They identify and use proper punctuation marks in a given write-up and change the narration according to the rules.
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Business Writing Lesson Plan:
Students learn the importance of business writing, including content and presentation. They improve their usage of punctuation and commas.
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Getting to Know You Through Peer Editing
Sixth graders get to know their classmates through 'personalized' sentences that feature one student each day, and offer practice in proofreading and peer-editing related to capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and/or grammar rules.
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Islam or Christianity?
Students design a mosaic depicting the city of Constantinople during determined periods of history. They include historical evidence that shows whether the city was under Muslim or Christian rule.
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How Atoms Work
Students analyze the way atoms function and how they combine to form molecules and various compounds. Using a software program, they create a diagram of an atom and write a summary about their functions. They complete a worksheet and...
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How Do I Get There From Here?
Sixth graders use a school map to create a charted course and a corresponding written description of the directions for travel from class to class, beginning with an arrival location in the morning and ending with a departure location in...