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Grade 8

Alabama ELA Standard: 8.LL.20.c

Revise their own writing for correct mechanics with a focus on commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semicolons.

That Quote’s Not Quite Right: Albert Einstein
That Quote’s Not Quite Right: Albert Einstein
When I see a quote, I often think, “That’s not quite right!”
Gr 1-8
Lipogram: Rewrite “Twinkle, Twinkle”
Lipogram: Rewrite “Twinkle, Twinkle”
What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?
Gr 1-8
Punctuation Power
Punctuation Power
In a sentence, punctuation may seem meek when compared to those mighty words, but punctuation has incredible power over the meaning of a sentence. Students will try re-punctuating sentences to find new meanings – without changing a single word!
Gr 1-8
“Its Big Day” – A Children’s Story About Its and It’s
“Its Big Day” – A Children’s Story About Its and It’s
Let’s spice up a typically dull lesson about the difference between “its” and “it’s” by asking students to write a children’s story about the adventures of a critter named It.
Gr 1-8