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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: "The Prince and the Pauper" Teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Opens with valuable background information for "The Prince and the Pauper" as well as explanations of format. Features chapter-by-chapter summaries, historical notes, probing questions, vocabulary, and quotations. Also includes language,...
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: An Educational Companion to Eats, Shoots & Leaves [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Eats, Shoots & Leaves illustrates the necessity of correct punctuation in order to convey intended meaning. Punctuation rules are stated here in a concise manner with accompanying exercises/keys.
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Other

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.
Unit Plan
University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Overview: Using Quoting & Paraphrasing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module explains the components of academic writing. The module includes the following topics: original material, paraphrased content, summarized information, and direct quotations.
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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 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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Other

Tameri: Guide for Writers: Punctuation Rules

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
This site provides the punctuation rules.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Speech Marks

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the basic conventions of speech punctuation.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Brackets

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on brackets by providing background information and uses including the following: clarify details, adding emphasis, modifying quoted material, and marking errors in quotations using [sic]. It provides...
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Socialism

For Students 9th - 10th
Links to a wide variety of socialism resources. Selections marked "at this site" are parts of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook, and all others are outside resources.
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University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania: Hiss and Chambers: Strange Story of Two Men

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a New York Times article published in 1948, offering an investigation of the Chambers-Hiss accusation. Includes the following sections: the prologue, the accusation, the denial, the Chambers rebuttal, the Hiss...
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Other

Webfoot.com: A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email Format

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide explains what types of formats you should use in your email messages to insure the receiver will receive your message as intended. This website covers fancy text, extended character sets, web links, punctuation and quotation...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Proper Punctuation

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Need a quick refresher on proper punctuation? This easy to read guide covers common types of punctuation and provides examples. Included are links to practice sites.
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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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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Italics & Underlining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains information regarding the correct use of italics and underlining, along with many examples.
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Titles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains information regarding the correct use of italics in titles.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Italics and Underlining: Foreign Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing foreign words in a sentence.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation of the uses of italics and underlining. Links to additional information are provided.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Titles of Works

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing titles.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Words, Letters, Numbers Gram. Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples underlining/italicizing words, letters, and numbers when they refer to themselves.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Names Ships and Trains

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing the names of spacecraft, aircraft, ships, and trains.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strategies for Editing: Practice 3 (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Quoting Malory [Twain Connection]

For Students 9th - 10th
Critical tie-in between Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." Links between primary quotes from "Morte d'Arthur" and chapters from "Yankee."
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Language Arts Challenge

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on activities that allow students to demonstrate their knowledge of: ABC order, nouns, plurals, irregular plurals, sentences and quotation marks.