Handy HintActivityDay 1Tool Box – SpellingCheck Words You Aren’t Sure Of! Find examples of five of the capitalization hints from magazinesDay 3Saw – FragmentsDon’t cut up a thought - It won’t be complete! Make tool, write rule!Tool poem (with fragments, students rewrite…)Day 4Pliers – Commas4 Parts of the Pliers:1.
In a Series (X,Y, Z)
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Interrupters
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Describers
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Introductory Bits
Make tool, write rule! Display sample sentences that need semi-colonsDay 6Hammer – EllipseThree Dots! (Get 3 rules from page 388 in Write Source) on front; on the back, copy the bolded examples.
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Microsoft Office Word (.doc, .dot) - application/msword
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