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 23, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
Two of my least favorite things to teach: direct/indirect objects (and predicate nominatives) AND degrees of comparison. (Okay, maybe that is like my four least favorite things to teach!) The first ones (direct/indirect/pn) are just soooo complicated (and they can’t...
by Language Arts Lady | Apr 20, 2020 | Articles, Punctuation Puzzles
Today’s Punctuation Puzzle brings to light an important comma rule that is not readily known. Commas are super subjective and thus challenging to write with. So whenever we can have a fairly fool-proof trick (or tricks in this week’s puzzle!) up our sleeve to make the...
by Language Arts Lady | Apr 18, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
He said words that would be remembered forever One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind Here is a possible answer with the reasons below. He said words that would be remembered forever: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” 1. The...
by Language Arts Lady | Apr 16, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
By Zac Kieser and Donna Reish Okay…here is another Punctuation Puzzle for you to solve! Try to figure out where punctuation marks should go–before you look below at the answers/explanations! 🙂 I read the magazine article titled “Baby...
