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Writing Resources RRC Home Students Current Page This section contains interactive grammar lessons in grammar, mechanics and punctuation. Below that you'll find links to various online resources that may help you with your writing: dictionaries, style guides, and online reference sources. At the bottom of this page is a box where you can submit any comments or suggestions. Interactive Grammar Lessons Below you will find lessons and exercises on various points of grammar and mechanics. The self-marking Interactive Exercises will allow you to practise the lessons whenever you like. Interactive Exercises on Report Writing Job Search General Writing References SNN Newsroom Writing Skills from the SchoolNet News Network. Citing Sources Grammar and Style Guides Dictionaries Encyclopedias and Reference Works Additions or Comments? If you have any additional lessons that you'd like to see added, or if you have any suggestions or corrections to offer, please send an email to this address. Since October 2003
Writing, Elementary Program by Michael Clay Thompson series from Royal Fireworks Press This is part of the innovative and revolutionary English Language Arts programs by Michael Clay Thompson. Writing is the summative skill that combines what is learned in grammar, vocabulary and poetics as part of producing a finished piece of writing. Elementary Writing Development Sequence (pdf). Teachers find the grammar, vocabulary and poetics programs incredibly inspiring, successful and illuminating. This writing series should be used in conjunction with the rest of the program to teach students formal essay writing. The Elementary level series, which begins with Sentence Island and finishes with Essay Voyage, is stunningly illustrated with original drawings from the art of noted American artist, Milton N. The Secondary level Series is illustrated by actual research papers and Michael Thompson's grading comments. Gifted students need to be able to write academic English. Michael Thompson has compiled comments for students’ papers over many years.
Daily Grammar Archive - Comprehensive Archive of Grammar Lessons This archive contains links to all of our free grammar lessons and quizzes. You can use this archive to study Daily Grammar at your own pace. Lessons 1-90 cover the eight parts of speech, which are verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Lessons 91-300 cover the parts of the sentence, such as appositives, predicate nominatives, direct objects, prepositional phrases, clauses, and verbals. Lessons 301-440 cover the mechanics of grammar, which is also known as capitalization and punctuation. Lessons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - Quiz Lessons 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 - Quiz Lessons 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 - Quiz Lessons 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 - Quiz Lessons 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 - Quiz Lessons 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 - Quiz Lessons 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 - Quiz Lessons 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 - Quiz Lessons 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 - Quiz Lessons 61, 62, 63, 64, 65 - Quiz Lessons 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 - Quiz
Kids' Place Houghton Mifflin English Which word correctly completes this sentence? The baby has to sleep. Kids' Place Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. OWL Writing Exercises Welcome to the updated OWL exercise pages. For the past year and a half, we have been working on updating the OWL page design and OWL navigation based on our OWL Usability Project findings. As part of this process, we have also been working on correcting and updating our exercises. To navigate the OWL exercises, please use the navigation bar on the left. If you cannot find an exercise you have used in the past, or if you have a suggestion for adding an exercise, please let us know. Note: Users may notice that the OWL exercises no longer offer the dropdown option.
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