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”)....
by Language Arts Lady | Apr 29, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
I’m bringing back the Punctuation Puzzle! Many readers said they enjoyed these puzzles….so I will be bringing you one each week. (I love them too!) For your Character Ink Cottage Class kids and others with upper level students, do these with them! They will be...
by Language Arts Lady | Apr 28, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
Colons are seriously hard! If people use them at all, they often use them wrong. Generally speaking, people use colons following a speech tag in two instances (both of which are incorrect): a. Following any speech tag— Donna said: “This is how you use...
by Language Arts Lady | Apr 27, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
By Zac Kieser and Donna Reish Welcome to another exciting episode of Punctuation Puzzle! 🙂 I am having so much fun creating these with my writing assistant, Zac Kieser. Grammar and usage can be super confusing—and these puzzles are a great way to learn with the steps...
by Language Arts Lady | Apr 26, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
By Donna Reish & Zac Kieser Amazing Punctuation Puzzle this week! And not just because it is about a favorite attraction of mine at Disney World. (Btw, 267 days til our next family Disney trip!) Zac does an amazing job explaining sentence openers and comma...
by Language Arts Lady | Apr 25, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
Compound possessives! They are incredibly tricky! Zac does a great job teaching them in this week’s Punctuation Puzzle, but I am going to give you three “Tricky Tricks to Help It Stick” right up front about possessives (a little cheat sheet before...
