Word Handy Hint Activity
    Day 1

    Tool Box – Spelling     		Check Words You Aren’t Sure Of! Write all 50 commonly misspelled words creatively on your toolbox
    Day 2

    Flashlight - Capitalization     		First Letter of Sentence, Titles, Actual Names of Things, Places, Countries, Names, Dates, Events, Religions Make tool, write rule!

    Find examples of five of the capitalization hints from magazines
    Day 3

    Saw – Fragments     		Don’t cut up a thought - It won’t be complete! Every sentence needs a subject, a verb, and a complete thought. Make tool, write rule!

    Tool poem (with fragments, students rewrite…)

     
    Day 4

    Pliers – Commas     		4 Parts of the Pliers:

    1. In a Series (X,Y, Z)

    2. Interrupters

    3. Describers

    4. Introductory Bits     		Make tool, write rule!

    Write two examples of each on the back
    Day 5

    Screwdriver – Semi-Colons     		Join two sentences on related topic (use instead of a period) Make tool, write rule!

    Display sample sentences that need semi-colons
    Day 6

    Hammer – Ellipse     		Three Dots! Three Reasons

    1.  To Show Pause

    2.  To Show Omitted Words

    3.  At the End of the Sentence     		Make tool, write rule! (Get 3 rules from page 388 in Write Source) on front; on the back, copy the bolded examples.

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