Students review grammar and punctuation rules from previous lessons. As a class, they work together to correct sentences on an overhead transparency. If there is a discrepancy about what needs to be changed, they must discuss the issue...

Second graders listen to a read aloud of Eric Carle's, The Grouchy Ladybug and do a rewrite using a software program. They create an original graphic, insert text boxes, keyboard sentences and set time on a clock face while writing a...

Practice using quotation marks and italics in this brief exercise. Check your answers when you're done.

A grammar activity/assessment for the high school student on using commas correctly. With ten multiple choice questions that can be submitted to be scored and an essay question.

This slideshow lesson focuses on divided (split) quotations and how to punctuate them. It presents four uses of the divided quote, explains how to punctuate each, and provides examples.

This video lesson focuses on the uses of the slash mark; it explains the purposes of the slash mark and when not to use it. It also discusses when to use the slash and how to write it between words, in poetry, and in URL addresses.

A good site as a resource for changing tone and voice in the written medium of email. Discusses asterisks, capital letters, punctuation, whitespace, and lower-case letters.

An interesting and fairly detailed list of many of the acronyms that are used in email. Also discusses some unique internet/email "jargon," such as "spam."

Discover more about grammar and punctuation when you check out this comprehensive site. This site gives a tutorial on correct grammar usage.

Practice using commas as you complete this exercise, which requires you to know your comma rules.

Another site giving advice to beginning email users; this one deals with gestures in emails, such as smileys, pause equivalents, and creative punctuation.

Click on the two cards to match each punctuation mark with one of its usage rules.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ideas for engaging learning activities. Ideas for class warm-up activities are provided for language arts and math.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a review of basic punctuation and capitalization in conversation. There is a 5 question Activote session at the end.

This lesson explains the punctuation rules for a divided quote. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.

This lesson introduces slash marks and how they are used.

An editing/proofreading checklist is often helpful when you read your own work, or someone else's. This site helps you edit for capitalization, sentence fragments, verb tense, and punctuation. Included is a brief video about sentence...

Quotations and commas are two very useful punctuation tools that indicate dialogue and brief pausing in sentences. Learn how to use them correctly!

Listen to this simple rap for advice on where to place quotation marks.

Graphic image of colorful punctuation marks on a square, yellow background.