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Hockett, M. A. – 2002
Written for the fifth- and sixth-grade levels, this workbook gives students practice in using context clues and reading comprehension to apply punctuation rules, as well as in carefully reading and following directions. Noting that the activities are based on the idea that punctuation is necessary to make written communication clear, the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Context Clues, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities
Margotta, Lynn – 1998
This software product is designed to teach punctuation to students aged 8 to 14 years. The software may be used without the printed text, but educators will appreciate the added dimension and greater convenience that the lesson plans provide. Along with the 12 lesson plans are worksheets, templates, and other materials needed to complete the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools
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Cordeiro, Patricia; And Others – Language Arts, 1983
Describes a longitudinal study of first-grade students' progress in learning punctuation. Examines the classroom as a writing environment, then presents a picture of the children's progress in learning to use apostrophes, quotation marks, and periods, drawing several implications for teaching. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Grade 1, Primary Education, Punctuation
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Wilson, Lionel – English Quarterly, 1981
England's Leslie Stratta shares his views on teaching basic writing and assessing student growth in writing. (AEA)
Descriptors: Assignments, Punctuation, Skill Development, Spelling
Perkins, Chris – Englisch, 1979
Laments the neglect of punctuation in English courses, even in university-preparatory schools. Emphasizes the greater importance that punctuation has in English than in German. Illustrates, with example sentences, the interference of the native language and shows how using or omitting a comma can change the meaning of a sentence. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), German, Grammar, Language Instruction
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Baldwin, R. Scott; Coady, James M. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1978
This study consisted of two repeated measures experiments which explored the relationship between punctuation and grammatical expectations. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cues, Elementary Education, Grade 5, Graduate Students
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LaFontana, Virginia R. – English Journal, 1996
Suggests that in evaluating student papers audiotapes have several advantages over written comments: audiotapes make for a holistic instead of myopic evaluating approach, and make it easier to make positive comments. Explains system for transferring responsibility for grammatical errors from the teacher to the student. (TB)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Evaluation Methods, Grading, Grammar
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Petit, Angela – English Journal, 2003
Presents an example illustrating how teachers can create reading and writing activities that emphasize how words work through grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and usage. Describes a workshop that highlights a single punctuation mark: the semicolon. Notes that the semicolon defies rigid rules for use and is therefore ideally suited for instruction…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Usage
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Vogel, Susan A.; Konrad, Dee – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1989
The article identifies specific problems in writing experienced by students with learning disabilities and offers remedial strategies. Considered are problems in spelling, punctuation, and grammar. An example of a case study to identify errors in writing mechanics is also offered. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Evaluation Methods, Grammar
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Ober, Scot – Journal of Education for Business, 1988
The author identified grammar and punctuation software suitable for secondary or postsecondary business students. Three programs--(1) Agreement of Subject and Verb, (2) Punctuation Review, and (3) English Achievement I--were field tested in a classroom setting. Student impressions of the programs are reported. (CH)
Descriptors: Business Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Grammar
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Merrifield, Doris Fulda – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 1991
Offers sufficient responses to 60 of the most frequently made errors in German grammar, plus 13 punctuation rules, and proposes that the instructor hand out this list to the students and henceforth "tag" language errors by the corresponding number, then have the student correct them and resubmit the assignment for a better grade. (GLR)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction, Error Patterns, German
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Hall, Nigel – Language and Education, 1999
Based on a two-year study of children in a classroom environment, this article focuses on an early period of writing development in which many unconventional punctuation behaviors occur. Describes a range of types of unconventional punctuation and assigns them a common underlying principle, that of using punctuation according to graphic principles…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students, Feedback, Foreign Countries
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Seamon, Marc – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2001
Surveys 100 journalism schools investigating: (1) whether journalism schools treat spelling, punctuation, grammar, and AP style as important factors in improving the state of journalism; (2) how journalism schools are teaching and assessing spelling, punctuation, grammar, and AP style; and (3) whether journalism schools are using entrance or exit…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Editing, Grammar, Higher Education
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Dawkins, John – Composition Forum, 2000
Looks at how the best writers of English from the 1600s to the present use punctuation in their nonfiction. Finds three bases for punctuation: intonation, grammar (or syntax), and semantics (or rhetoric). Shows that these authors do not regularly and consistently follow the institutionalized rules. Argues for rhetoric-based punctuation because its…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Standardization
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Ferreiro, Emilia; Pontecorvo, Clotilde – Learning and Instruction, 1999
Studied the use of punctuation in children's early writings in connection with organization of the text. Collected 134 stories of second graders written in Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian. Children tried to make sense of writing conventions, including the use of punctuation, and some tried to distinguish the functions of punctuation marks. (SLD)
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 2
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