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Grade 8

Strand 1
- 8.1.A
- 8.1.B
- 8.1.C
- 8.1.D
Strand 2
Strand 3
- 8.3
Strand 4
- 8.4
Strand 5
- 8.5.A
- 8.5.B
- 8.5.C
- 8.5.D
- 8.5.E
- 8.5.F
- 8.5.G
- 8.5.H
- 8.5.I
Strand 6
- 8.6.A
- 8.6.B
- 8.6.C
- 8.6.D
- 8.6.E
- 8.6.F
- 8.6.G
- 8.6.H
- 8.6.I
- 8.6.J
Strand 7
Strand 8
Strand 9
Strand 10
- 8.10.A
- 8.10.B
- 8.10.B.i
- 8.10.B.ii
- 8.10.C
- 8.10.D
- 8.10.D.i
- 8.10.D.ii
- 8.10.D.iii
- 8.10.D.iv
- 8.10.D.v
- 8.10.D.vi
- 8.10.D.vii
- 8.10.E
Strand 11
Strand 12
- 8.12.A
- 8.12.B
- 8.12.C
- 8.12.D
- 8.12.E
- 8.12.F
- 8.12.G
- 8.12.H
- 8.12.H.i
- 8.12.H.ii
- 8.12.I
- 8.12.J

TEKS ELA Standard: 8.10.D.vi

punctuation, including commas in nonrestrictive phrases and clauses, semicolons, colons, and parentheses

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!