Teaching Semicolons: Compound Sentences
The educator collects and analyzes two students’ use of semicolons to connect main clauses in their own writing.
Teaching Conventions: Quotation Marks
The educator collects and analyzes two students’ use of quotation marks to mark direct speech in their own writing.
Teaching Conventions: Parentheses
The educator collects and analyzes two students’ use of parentheses to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements in their own writing.
Teaching Conventions: Ellipses
The educator collects and analyzes two students’ use of ellipses to indicate a pause, break, or omission in their own writing.
Teaching Apostrophes: Contractions
The educator collects and analyzes two students’ use of apostrophes to form contractions in their own writing.
Teaching Apostrophes: Possessives
The educator collects and analyzes two students’ use of apostrophes to form singular and plural possessives in their own writing.
Teaching Commas: Appositives
The educator collects and analyzes two students’ use of commas to set off appositives in their own writing.
Teaching Commas: Compound Sentences
The educator collects and analyzes two students’ use of commas before coordinating conjunctions in compound sentences in their own writing.
Teaching Commas: Coordinate Adjectives
The educator collects and analyzes two students’ use of commas to punctuate coordinate adjectives in their own writing.
Teaching Commas: Direct Address
The educator collects and analyzes two students’ use of commas to set off nouns of direct address in their own writing.
Teaching Commas: Direct Speech
The educator collects and analyzes two students’ use of commas with quotation marks to mark direct speech in their own writing.
Teaching Commas: Introductory Words
The educator collects and analyzes two students’ use of commas to set off the introductory words yes and no in their own writing.