Mice or mouses? Help kids grasp irregular plural nouns with this grammar game. They'll have so much fun racing that they'll forget how much they're learning.
Kids rewrite incorrect sentences to gain practice with sentence structure, capitalization, and punctuation on this first grade reading and writing worksheet.
This independent study packet features 5 days of independent activities in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies for fourth grade. This is week 1 of the set.
Third grade writers will be tasked with writing longer and more complicated sentences. This guided lesson in understanding, constructing and punctuating sentences can support kids as they learn to build bigger and better sentences in their writing. Grammar instruction and practical examples were written by our curriculum experts, complete with a list of recommended building sentence worksheets for third graders.
Knowing your parts of speech is an important part of learning good writing skills. Learn the ins and outs of words with this packet that covers the eight different parts of speech.
Second grade writers often need extra support with the rules of capitalization, puncuation, apostrophes, and proper nouns. The exercises in this guided lesson cover these four key grammar rules, and provide kids with targeted exercises to help them practice writing with correct grammar usage. To help gain even more practice with new writing skills, download and print the capitalization and punctuation worksheets suggested as part of this lesson.
Kids rewrite incorrect sentences to gain practice with sentence structure, capitalization, and punctuation on this first grade reading and writing worksheet.
Punctuation is an essential element of a sentence. Without it, we wouldn’t know how to organize our thoughts, where to pause and when to stop! A comma or a period or any of the other punctuation marks the English language uses conveys so much more about a sentence than just the mere words on the page. Teach your students how to use this important tool of language with our worksheets and activities.
Get Started With Punctuation
Punctuation is the system of symbols we use to separate parts of sentences to make their meaning clear. A famous example is “A panda eats shoots and leaves.” Without punctuation, this sentence means the subject eats plant growths. Punctuated as “Eats, shoots, and leaves,” it means the subject eats first, then fires a weapon, then leaves the scene. The meaning of the sentence completely changes just by using these critical marks! (The writer Lynne Truss, in fact, used this as the title of her book about grammar, Eats, Shoots and Leaves.)
The 14 punctuation marks in the English language
Period: The simplest punctuation mark to use, it marks the end of the sentence.
Comma: Separates one list item from the next, or provides a pause in thought.
Question mark: Used at the end of a sentence that asks a direct question.
Exclamation mark: Expresses exasperation, astonishment or surprise. It’s also used to emphasize a comment or short, sharp phrase.
Colon: Expands on the sentence that precedes it, often introducing a list that elaborates whatever was previously stated.
Semicolon: The semicolon is somewhere between a period and a comma.
Quotation marks: Used to cite something someone said exactly.
Apostrophe: Used for possessions and contractions.
Dashes: Used to create emphasis in a sentence.
Hyphen: Joins two words or parts of words together while avoiding confusion or ambiguity.
Parentheses: Curved notations used to express further thoughts.
Brackets: Squared-off notations used for technical explanations or to clarify meaning.
Braces: Used to contain two or more lines of text or listed items to show that they are considered as a unit.
Ellipsis: Three equally spaced points to indicate the omission of words in a quotation.