Lessons tagged with "punctuation"
Use Commas to Separate Items in a Series
- Grade:
- 1
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on using commas to separate items in a series. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify a series of items in a sentence and insert commas. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Edit Writing
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
In this Common Core writing lesson, students will practice rereading and editing texts. In this lesson, students will edit texts for proper capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
Punctuate Dates, Cities, and States
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on punctuating dates, cities, and states correctly. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students insert commas to correctly punctuate dates, cities, and states. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Capitalize Holidays and Special Events
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on capitalizing holidays and special events. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify holidays and special events in sentences and mark the letters to be capitalized. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Capitalize Geographical Names and Historical Periods
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on capitalizing geographical names and historical events. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify historical events and geographical names in sentences and mark the letters to be capitalized. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Punctuate Compound Sentences Correctly
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on correctly punctuating compound sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read sentences, identify the relationship of the clauses, if any, then they insert the proper comma. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Edit Writing
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
In this Common Core writing lesson, students will practice rereading and editing texts. In this lesson, students will edit texts for proper capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
Analyze Compound Sentences
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on analyzing compound sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the relationship between two independent clauses (addition, cause, difference, result, choice). Then, they write the correct coordinating conjunction for the compound sentence. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify Complex Sentences
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying complex sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence and identify the dependent clause, labeling the conjunction and punctuation. then, Identify the independent clause and if it is a complex sentence, students identify what type (cSV, SV, or SV cSV). Finally, they write how the clauses are related. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Recognize and Name End Punctuation
- Grade:
- K
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This language lesson focuses on recognizing and naming end punctuation. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.