Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Speech Marks

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

Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Titles of Works

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing titles.
Handout
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.
Handout
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.
Lesson Plan
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.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Dazzle Me With Dialogue

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
An eleven-part learning module with links to websites and texts to use while learning how to write and punctuate dialogue.
Article
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...
Whiteboard
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.
Handout
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.
Handout
English Club

English Club: Type

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
EnglishClub provides information about different forms of "type" on this resource. Functions of "bold" and "italics" are discussed.
Activity
Shmoop University

Shmoop: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

For Students 9th - 10th
Mark Twain's famous book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, is analysed thoroughly in this comprehensive site. Find out about the major characters, the themes, and important quotations from the nove.
Handout
University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier De Breteuil Chatelet

For Students 9th - 10th
This page on French mathematician Emilie de Chatelet offers details of her life and work. Quotes from Voltaire, du Chatelet herself, and others mark how extraordinary it was for a woman of her day to study and write of mathematics and...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Louisa May Alcott: Transcendentalism

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the impact of transcendentalism on the life of Louisa May Alcott and American society in this video [4:00] from the American Masters film Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women.' Emphasizing self-reliance, civil...
Handout
The Tongue Untied

University of Oregon the Tongue Untied: Semicolon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discover more about semicolon usage when you visit this informative resource. Students and teachers will benefit from the examples listed for semicolon use.