Punctuation lesson 2nd grade

The chart tells students all punctuation marks along with how they are used to in a sentence.

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Try this opinion writing lesson with your second or third grade students to engage their brains and get them ready to write. A fun way to kick off an opinion writing unit!

Asking or Telling? Telling or Asking??? Omigoodness!!! Do your kiddos ever give you that "dazed & confused" look when they are trying to ...

One of our first grade standards in SC is to teach students to edit for punctuation,capitalization, and spelling in writing. For those o...

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I love having Mondays off, because the rest of the week seems to go by so quickly! I can’t believe tomorrow is already Wednesday! Also, I feel like my students are really getting a hang of our routines and procedures, which is always exciting! We start out our grammar unit by talking about types of […]

We have been brushing up on our quotation skills the last couple of weeks. It is such a hard skill for students to grasp in first grade, but once they reach second grade it's like something "clicks" and they can pick it up quickly. (So don't stress yourselves out first grade teachers!) Here is our quotation mark anchor chart... we used quotes from our Magic Tree House read aloud that we have been reading. During stations, we used play-dough to create quotation marks on our sentence cards…

I loved this lesson! We went back to two very familiar Nancy Carlson books and went on a Punctuation Scavenger Hunt. We noticed that she didn't have many questions marks. I asked the group what kind of book do you think we would find questions mark...a reader in the group responded nonfiction. This week we will do this again with a nonfiction book. This lesson came from the book Mastering the Mechanics k-1 by Linda Hoyt. Writing Craft Anchor Chart While learning about Nancy Carlson, we…

Working on quotation marks with your students/child? This FUN and engaging game is the perfect way to learn how to use them…plus kids practice spelling at the same time! Like my Roll and Write Different Kinds of Sentences, spelling words are integrated right into the activity! Note: The free download link is found towards the ... Read More about Roll and Write Sentences with Quotation Marks