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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Periods

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent outline of the usage and rules concerning the "period" in English punctuation. Includes guidelines about acronyms, abbreviations, sentence ending, and more.
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Sandhills Community College: The Period

For Students 9th - 10th
A good guide to understanding the several uses of the period in English punctuation. Includes information concerning periods in a sentence as well as abbreviations. Includes several examples.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: End of Sentence Punctuation

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This page discusses end of sentence punctuation with links to periods, exclamation marks, and question marks.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Period

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource detailing the uses and rules of the grammatical element "the period." Also includes information about the period in sentences, quotation marks, parentheses, and abbreviations.
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ACT360 Media

Writing Tips: Sentence Builder Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of the major elements of punctuation in the English language, including the period, question mark, exclamation mark, comma, apostrophe, quotation marks, colon, semicolon, dash, and hyphen. Provides a brief description and the...
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University of Calgary

Univ. Of Calgary: Periods, Question Marks, Exclamations

For Students 9th - 10th
This excellent resource provides information about rules, uses, and misuses of these three end marks (period, question mark, exclamation mark). Also, includes examples and short quizzes at the end of each section.
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English Club

English Club: What Is Punctuation?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub tutorial reviews the purposes for punctuation. Several examples of punctuation in the context of sentences.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Grammar: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity 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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Tameri: Guide for Writers: Punctuation Rules

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
This site provides the punctuation rules.
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Northern Illinois University

Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center: Punctuation Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th
A ten question punctuation quiz utilizing comma, colon, semicolon, and a period. If answered incorrectly, students are able to select a different answer. The percentage of accuracy from their first answer is calculated at the top.
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English Club

English Club: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub tutorial explains what punctuation marks are, what punctuation marks do, and why punctuation marks are important. Links to supplemental songs and videos about punctuation are also provided.
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University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: End Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Resourceful site which includes information about periods, question marks, and exclamation marks. Also provides examples and addresses abbreviation rules for periods.
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Sandhills Community College: Punctuation Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Lists, defines and describes the uses of many elements of English punctuation, including the period, comma, semicolon, colon, apostrophe, quotation, hyphen, and dash. Includes several examples.
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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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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Periods

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces periods and how they are used. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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ACT360 Media

Writing Tips: Punctuation: Period

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief description of the rules, usage, and examples of the "period" in English punctuation. Includes basic information concerning period use in abbreviations as well.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Punctuation

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces students to punctuation and focuses on question marks and periods at the ends of sentences.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Separation Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website provides information about how to use separation punctuation. There is a video clip [0:47] on why periods go inside quotation marks, and a second video clip [1:07] showing the effects of using too many exclamation points.
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Get It Write

Get It Write: One Space of Two After Periods? (And Other Typography Issues)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read some rules about typography that have changed because of the use of word processing rather than typewriters. This tutorial explains spacing after all punctuation, the use of em dashes and en dashes, and the use of italics.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Period

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
Rules and examples for using a period correctly at the end of a sentence.
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Super Teacher Worksheets: Punctuation: Period and Question Mark [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This PDF gives a simple definition of a period and question mark, an example of when to use each type of punctuation and then has thirteen simple sentences for students to practice their skills of identifying what type of ending...
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Margie Holds Court: Six Thoughts on "Punctuation After "Yes" and "No""

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This is a discussion by a court reporter on when to use a comma or period after yes and no in response sentences with examples.
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Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Collecting Full Stops [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will help Roy the Zebra learn about the "period" end mark. Students will identify periods in context, add periods to the ends of sentences, and then construct their own sentences.
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Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: The Big Full Stop Tidy Up [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will help Roy the Zebra learn about the "period" as a way to end complete sentences. Students will look at various pictures and then add periods to their related sentences. Then the students will construct their own sentences...

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