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Comma Comments

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Upper elementary and middle schoolers, in pairs, use PowerPoint to link a button to every comma within a piece of writing. The button links to a slide explaining why the comma was used. They present their slides to the class.
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Comma Splices

For Students 7th - 12th
Ah, the comma splice; somehow it works its way into middle and high schoolers' writing quite often. To start, this activity defines comma splice and focuses on the four ways to correct them. For practice, pupils correct the comma splices...
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Mistakes That English Native Speakers Make 3

For Students 5th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students analyze 20 sentences and mark the one error in each. Students look for errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling or writing style. This page is intended for ESL adults, but is usable for proofreading...
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Grammar and Punctuation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students review grammar and punctuation rules from previous lessons. As a class, they work together to correct sentences on an overhead transparency. If there is a discrepancy about what needs to be changed, they must discuss the issue...
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Full Stops

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this sentence punctuation worksheet, students read the words in the bubbles and insert the correct punctuation. Students then draw a picture of themselves and write a sentence in the speech bubble.
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Commas

For Students 1st Standards
Learning how to properly use the comma is an important writing skill. This worksheet, designed for first graders, gives them some coaching on the subject along with opportunities to practice. There are five sentences which must be...
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Every-Day Edit: Peanuts Comic Strip

For Students 3rd - 8th
Catch up with the Peanuts gang and correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph. Learners will correct errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every Day Edit - President Theodore Roosevelt

For Students 3rd - 8th
Introduce your grammarians to Teddy Roosevelt with this half-sheet editing assignment. Present it at the beginning of class as a bell-ringer, or send it home for a quick homework assignment. Middle schoolers will search for errors in...
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Every-Day Edits: Where is Helvetia?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read about Helvetia and practice editing at the same time. Learners read a short passage then work to identify 10 punctuation, capitalization, spelling, or grammar errors. This exercise prints with two passages on one page, so you use...
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Test Review Sheet: Irony, Comma Rules, and Sentence Variety,

For Students 7th - 9th
Covering vocabulary, literary analysis, and grammar, this worksheet would be a great study guide or homework assignment for an eighth-grade Language Arts class. Though the five stories by Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, and Oscar Wilde are...
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Georgia CRCT - 7th Grade Language Arts Quiz

For Students 7th
Whether your seventh graders are preparing for the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) or any other standardized test, this practice worksheet takes them through a variety of language arts skills. Punctuation, grammar,...
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Sentence Unit

For Teachers 8th
Imagine using history to teach grammar. This 178-slide PowerPoint presents an amazing collection of images and historical information about the settlement of Tennessee and about famous residents like Daniel Boone. Viewers...
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Roald Dahl

George's Marvelous Medicine

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Six lessons comprise a unit about Roald Dahl's George's Marvelous Medicine. Over time, scholars explore themes such as the power of words, exciting writing, and mixed feelings. They examine the writing's literary devices, persuasive...
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Avoiding Run-On Sentences (I)

For Students 7th - 9th
Eliminate run-on sentences! This practice opportunity highlights run-on sentence errors and how to fix them. Examples are shown, and learners are given two options: using semi-colons or commas and coordinating conjunctions. Help polish...
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Guided Reading Activities with Pizzazz

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Get the most out of your guided reading lessons with this collection of literacy materials. Offering a system for using color-coded tags to mark pages while reading books, as well as an assortment of comprehension and grammar...
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Rewriting a Dialogue (removing quotes)

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
This is a great activity! Upper elementary learners read a dialogue-driven passage. Then, they rewrite lines of dialogue by removing the quotation marks and shifting the verb tense to past. Grammar and great writing skills all in one. An...
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Lesson Plan 18: Cleaning It Up

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Careful proofreading is an important step in the writing process.  After guided practice using a provided worksheet that details common grammar concepts, young writers refer to the worksheet as they proofread their own work....
Interactive
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Bulleted Lists: punctuating items in vertical lists

For Students 7th - 10th
What is easier to read: a bulleted list or a block of text? Look at different examples with your class and then go over the style guidelines for vertical lists. 
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Using Connectors: Because and Though

For Students 6th - 8th
For this using connectors:  because and though worksheet, students red the explanations and examples for using these two conjunctions, then interactively complete 20 sentences using the correct words or punctuation, with immediate...
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Every-Day Edit: The King of Castles

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this editing worksheet about Windsor Castle, pupils read and edit a short paragraph. Students look for 10 errors in capitalization punctuation, spelling and/or grammar.
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Statements and Questions

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this statements and questions instructional activity, students rewrite 5 sentences using the correct capital letter and end punctuation. Answers are not given.
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Statements and Questions

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this ending mark worksheet, students write the correct end punctuation for 10 statements and questions. Rules for punctuating statements and questions are provided. 
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Language Arts Review Quiz #8

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts review worksheet, students rewrite 2 sentences with the correct grammar and punctuation. Students complete a syllable activity, pronoun activity, compound activity, and spelling activity.
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A Sentence for Life

For Teachers 2nd
What is a sentence? Second graders will explore the components of a sentence in the ten lessons of this unit. The subject, predicate, the process of proofreading, punctuation, and sentence sequence are analyzed in this unit. Handouts and...