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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Mini Lesson on Semicolons

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Practical instructional activity on students' use of the semicolon, modeled on Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Comma vs. Semicolon: Compound Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A handout with forty sentences for practicing comma and semicolon usage in compound sentences; answer key provided.
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Tidewater Community College Writing Center: Practical Punctuation Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains practical and useful information about the following: commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, parentheses and brackets, ellipsis points, quotation marks, and apostrophes. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
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Semicolon: Review of Margaret Peterson Haddix Books

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This detailed blog posting recommends 4 of Margaret Peterson Haddix's books for young teen girls. Includes comments on some of her other books as well.
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Vancouver Island University

Malaspina: Punctuating Between Main Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Four printable exercises in which punctuation errors need to be corrected. 2.1 requires correction of compound sentences by putting in commas or semicolons where needed and getting rid of comma splices. 2.2 requires comma splice...

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