Quotation marks are the focus of this resource. In it, youngsters discover how to correctly use punctuation marks. It is meant to be carried out over a three-day period. You could shorten it, but I wouldn't. The activities are...

Examine the proper uses of punctuation with this easy PowerPoint. Simple, bold, and straightforward, each slide introduces a different symbol. Difficult or confusing instances are indicated as well.

Review where quotation marks belong and what they are used to indicate. From direct speech to in-text citations, young writers will find this worksheet quite useful. Several exercises at the bottom, along with a key, give learners...

When do you use quotation marks around titles? Review the rules at the top of the page, and then let learners decide if the sentences that follow use the quotations correctly. An answer sheet is included. 

Students complete activities with the book Sarah Plain and Tall. In this literature lesson, students read, discuss, and review vocabulary from Chapter 6. They make a list of quotations and review how to use quotation marks. 

Students identify when and why quotations are used. Using comic strips and speech bubbles, they read and discuss examples of quotation marks, and in pairs write text for a cartoon on a piece of paper using quotation marks around the...

Goldilocks and the Three Bears provide the text for a direct and reported speech worksheet. Pupils decide whether the model sentences are direct or reported speech and highlight the differences in the sentence pairs. They then...

In this quotation marks worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions where they choose which sentences are written correctly. Students complete 5 problems.

In this punctuation worksheet, students fill in the beginning and ending marks to sentences. Students fill in periods, question marks, and quotation marks where needed.

In this quotation marks worksheet, students complete a 10 question on-line interactive quiz about the correct use of quotation marks. Students read the given sentence and type in all needed punctuation marks.

In this quotation marks worksheet, students fill in quotation marks where they are needed in a paragraph. Students read the entire paragraph and fill in the quotation marks where they are needed.

In this language arts worksheet, students learn to use quotation marks to show someone is speaking. Students examine 12 cartoon frames and write a sentence using speech marks. There is a word bank of more interesting words to use other...

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...