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Colons, Dashes, Hyphens, and Parentheses
When should you use a colon, dash, or hyphen? Middle schoolers insert different types of punctuation marks into given sentences. Rules for usage are included in each example.
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Here's An Instant Activity for April 7, 2003
Fifth graders practice their spelling skills with soft syllable endings. For this spelling lesson, 5th graders complete soft syllable interaction activity with their teacher. Students then write 16 le-ending and ly-ending word pairs to...
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Organic Chemistry-Naming Substituted Hydrocarbons
In this substituted hydrocarbons worksheet, high schoolers learn how to name compounds using a table of organic functional groups and the rules for naming hydrocarbon compounds. They practice naming twenty substituted hydrocarbons.
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Organic Chemistry-Naming Hydrocarbons
In this naming hydrocarbons worksheet, students are given a table of the prefixes used for naming hydrocarbons based on the number of carbon atoms and their location. They then practice naming ten hydrocarbon compounds using the rules of...
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Adding -est Practice sheet (Adjectives)
In this comparative adjectives worksheet, students add the suffix -est to the adjectives in each box. Students use the rules to help spell the new words.
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Word Maps Teaching Ideas
In this literacy worksheet, students are given a graphic organizer to complete or are presented it as part of the lesson developed from using this sheet.
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Use Common Roots and Affixes When Attached to Known Vocabulary
After a brief review of roots and affixes, partners are asked to choose a root, find words built on that root, and create a Christmas ornament decorated with these words. Beware the typos!
Curated OER
Prime Factorizations
In this prime numbers activity, learners answer multiple choice questions about prime numbers and how they are read. Students answer 10 questions total.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Landforms Acrostic Poetry
Fourth graders apply scientific information about various landforms. They use the information to write and word process acrostic poems which they illustrate with clip art or pictures from magazines.
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Go Fish
First graders explore rhyming words. They listen to the book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and discuss the rhyming words. After being placed into groups, they play the game, "Go Fish" and find matching rhyming words. They...
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ESOL Transportation and Travel
Students identify safe driving practices and discuss new vocabulary to go along with it. They compare and contrast safe driving practices in the U.S. and the students' native countries.
Other
Spelling Rules: Words Ending in Y
Chart with rules and examples for adding suffixes to words that end in -y.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: I Before E Except After C: 9 Helpful Spelling Rules
This site provides nine important spelling rules and examples. L.9-10.2c Spelling, L.11-12.2 Cap/Punc/Spell
Other
Oxford Dictionaries: Words Ending in Sion, Tion, and Cion
Learn the spelling rules involving when to use an "s," "t," or "c" when adding an "ion" suffix.
Other
Spelling It Right: Spelling It Right: Adding a Suffix to Words Ending in Y
This is a reference page explaining the rules for adding a suffix to words ending in the letter Y.
English Plus+
Grammar Slammer: Hyphens Rules for Use
This site from Grammar Slammer offers links to each of the uses for hyphens where correct and incorrect examples are provided for each. L.11-12.2a Hyphens
Other
Grammarist: Able and Ible
Rules and examples for words ending in the suffixes -able and -ible.
Dave's ESL Cafe
Dave's Esl Cafe: Verb Forms and Verb Tenses #6: Spelling Ing Forms
Spelling rules and examples for adding the "ing" suffix to the ends of words.
Other
Oxford Dictionaries: Do You Know Your Ibles From Your Ables?
Rules and examples for words ending in the suffixes -able and -ible.
Other
Speakspeak: Spelling: Changing Y to Ies, Ied, Ier
A few rules and examples help students understand when and how to change words which end in -y, for plural nouns, verb forms, adjective and adverb forms.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Using Hyphens
Do you know when to use hyphens? Here's a resource that lists when to use hyphens in adjectives, in compound numbers, after prefixes, and in between line breaks with examples of each.