Teaching Children about Capitalization, Punctuation, Apostrophe s, and Contractions is a resource by Habakkuk Educational Materials that offers easy-to-understand rules, examples, and colorful illustrations to help students become better writers. In less than 50 pages, they will learn about capitalization and how to use punctuation marks in a sentence, including the period, explanation point, question mark, ellipsis, slash, brackets, parenthesis, comma, hyphen, dash, semicolon, colon, quotation marks, and the apostrophe (and apostrophe s). They will also be taught when italics or underlining should be used instead of quotations and when single quotations should be used in place of double quotation marks. The difference between dependent clauses (also known as subordinate clauses) and independent clauses is also discussed in this book.
In addition, students will learn about possessives, including possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives, and will discover what a contraction is and practice changing words such as it is and could not to the contractions it's and couldn't. To encourage student interaction, questions relating to both capitalization and punctuation have been included in the book, and all answers are available at the back. Several reproducible worksheets are also available for individual practice, to assess student learning, or for a teacher to use for direct instruction purposes on the classroom screen. The practice test discussed below may also be reproduced for non-commercial, classroom use.
Most of the pages in this book take only a few minutes of instruction time. It is recommended that you introduce one new page to the students daily and that you spend at least one day a week briefly reviewing pages you have already studied. This will help students to retain the information and will also help to prepare them for the corresponding unit test designed specifically for this book.
A practice test is included towards the end of the book. The same practice test is also available online as a computer-based test. You can access the test free of charge by visiting the website of Habakkuk Educational Materials. The computer will notify students if an answer is correct or incorrect, and their grades will be displayed after completing a test. When the student feels confident or at the teacher's discretion, there is also a computer-based unit test they can take to test their comprehension over the book's content. This book could be introduced to students as early as the first grade and used throughout elementary, middle, and high school. Actual testing of the content could begin as early as the 2nd or 3rd grade.
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