Articles related to "Punctuation Marks"

Teach children to read punctuation marks and practice with non-words to improve reading inflection, increase fluency and improve comprehension.

September 24th is National Punctuation Day! Try some fun and educational lesson plan activities to teach punctuation skills and build reading fluency and writing skills

This article details which punctuation marks go before the quotation marks and which ones go after.

The comma is an often misunderstood punctuation mark. It's been used and abused by the best. Here are some simple rules to keep your comma clean.

Semi-colons and colons, when used properly, can add structure and variety to writing. Learn how to correctly use semi-colons and colons in a variety of sentences.

Teaching first graders how to write in fun, creative and meaningful ways.

Cormac McCarthy represents a rare breed of American author: a writer who recognizes that pared-down prose does not have to come at the expense of richness and depth.

Strategies are offered to help you improve your writing capabilities. These 10 tips are designed for writers of all levels, because every writer wants to improve.

Braille is often portrayed as a modern Prometheus, punished by fate, inspired to give the illuminating gift of language to the blind-images that belie his true genius.

Parents can expand the emergent literacy behaviors that indicate an understanding of what reading is and serve as a strong foundation for later reading instruction.

In addition to the traditional proofreading role, a good editor examines a manuscript for word choice, sentence structure, grammar and a myriad of other writing errors.

A series of critical scientific discoveries were required before the manipulation and propagation of engineered DNA molecules could be undertaken.

The colon-two tiny dots, one on top of the other-causes enormous confusion for beginning writers. Here's why colons are helpful and how to use them.

Write better code by using the right data types, naming conventions, and comments.

Reading aloud is a skill that is very different from silent reading. Lessons to teach students how to practice the techniques of expression and intonation can be useful

The play shows two tramps waiting endlessly for someone who never arrives. The 1953 drama was voted the most significant play of the century, but what is it all about?

An essay by James Grimmelmann remarks on the similarities between the Internet and The Library of Babel, but there are many things to be done to make that comparison apt.

Any reader of the this article that doesn't see the errors in the subtitle could stand a refresher in how to use apostrophes.

This article will tell what a comma splice is, correct it and when this error is not necessarily an error.

Before kanji or katakana, the first writing that both Japanese and non-native speakers of Japanese should learn is hiragana. Romaji is provided as a pronunciation guide.

To improve their chances of getting a book published, writers need to write free-flowing, convincing dialogue - and to achieve this, the correct punctuation is vital.

How can writers know when a semicolon is preferable to a colon and vice versa? They can know by learning the rules.

The semicolon is the only punctuation mark that evokes strong emotion - admiration or dislike. Yet love it or hate it, we still need this mark - but for fewer purposes.