by Language Arts Lady | May 5, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
Zac and Cinderella do a great job explaining the RISE and RAISE problems in today’s puzzle. But RISE and RAISE cannot be taught alone—so Zac has prepared two more Punctuation Puzzles scheduled to follow this one about those similar confusing word pairs—Set/Sit and...
by Language Arts Lady | May 4, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
Welcome to another Punctuation Puzzle! This one is a doozy…and Zac does an amazing job teaching through it. So I won’t take much of your time in this introduction except to point out two important teacher tips for you: 1) It is imperative that students learn...
by Language Arts Lady | May 3, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
by Zac Kieser & Donna Reish “Homophones. Homophones. Homophones. Homophones!” Did you sing along with the old Veggie Tales song? I have never seen a Veggie Tale video, and I can even sing that! (Along with “Where Is My Hair Brush?”) The...
by Language Arts Lady | May 1, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
Parallelism. Some days I can’t even spell it, much less explain it really well. Some grammar concepts are like that. They seem out of reach…until you get a really great example, like today’s Alice in Wonderland Punctuation Puzzle sentence. The moral of this...
by Language Arts Lady | Apr 30, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
This week’s Punctuation Puzzle has to do with capitalizing references to people and commas with a series of three or more. The latter causes much confusion (and is covered, in part, in a recent LL slideshow, “5 Tips for Coordinating Conjunctions”)....
