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The following interactive sites are designed to improve your writing skills. Use the feedback provided on your compositions in order to determine which link will prove most useful.
 

 

The Deadly Sins Writers Checklist (Tutorials and Practice Activities)

http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/sins.htm

 

Combining Sentences Using Conjunctions

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/conj02.html

 

Kinds of Sentences (Practice Activities)

http://www.pb5th.com/test/writing/4sent_potc.htm

http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/quizzes/grammar/sentence2.htm

http://www.cottage-education.org/tests/english/Eng0300.htm

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/clubhouse/index_pre.html

 

Sentence Structure

http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lscr/35b.htm

http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/indep_clause_quiz.htm

http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-directions6-8.cgi?Grade=6&Unit=1&Topic=The+Sentence

 

Parts of Speech (Tutorials and Practice Activities)

http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/definitions.htm

http://eslus.com/LESSONS/GRAMMAR/POS/pos.htm

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/grammar.htm

http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz30fna.htm

http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/tests/sentenc2/sentpart.html

http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/tests/modify.html

http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/tests/verbs/verbs.html

http://ellerbruch.nmu.edu/CS255/cusher/English.html

 

Subject Verb Agreement (Tutorial and Practice Activities)

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/SubjectVerb.html

http://a4esl.org/q/j/kf/mc-svae.html

http://a4esl.org/q/j/jb/mc-be.html

http://a4esl.org/q/j/jb/mc-obligation.html

http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/tests/usage/usage.html

http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/agree.html

 

 

Capitalization (Tutorial and Practice Activities)

http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/capitals.htm

http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/tests/punct/punct.html

 

Punctuation Practice Activities

http://a4esl.org/q/j/ck/ed-punct01.html

http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/punctuation1.html

http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/punctuation2.html

http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/tests/intro/intro.html

http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-start.cgi?Grade=4&Unit=5&Topic=Capitalization+and+Punctuation&x=48&y=16

 

Using Commas (Tutorial and Practice Activities)

http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/comma.htm

 

Using Italics and Underlining

http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/italics.htm

 

Using Numbers in Writing  (Tutorial)

http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/numbers.htm

 

Contractions (Tutorial and Practice Activities)

http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/handouts/apostrophe.html#possessives

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/contractions.htm

http://www.quia.com/jg/66105.html

 

Grammar Games

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/6_8/quizzes/index.html

http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-directions6-8.cgi?Grade=6&Unit=1&Topic=The+Sentence

Grammar Bytes

 

The Writing Process (Tutorials and Handouts)

http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/composition.htm

http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/maplewoods/writeplace/organization.html

 

Editing Practice

http://pages.xtn.net/~gcs/parent/editing5A.html

 

Improving Your Vocabulary

http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/vocabulary.htm

http://www.funbrain.com/idioms/index.html

 

Spelling Quizzes

http://ccc.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz20.pl/spelling_quiz3.htm

http://ccc.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz20.pl/spelling_quiz4.htm

http://ccc.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz20.pl/spelling_quiz7.htm

http://ccc.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz20.pl/spelling_quiz2.htm

http://www.funbrain.com/whichword/index.html

http://www.funbrain.com/spell/index.html

http://www.quia.com/jg/66094.html

http://www.quia.com/pop/7435.html

http://www.quia.com/jg/67579.html

 

Auditory Spelling Quizzes

http://ccc.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz20.pl/spelling_quiz4.htm

http://ccc.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz20.pl/spelling_quiz7.htm

http://ccc.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz20.pl/spelling_quiz6.htm

http://ccc.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz20.pl/spelling_quiz1.htm

http://ccc.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz20.pl/spelling_quiz2.htm

http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/spelling.html (most misspelled)          

 

Practice Your Writing Skills/Writing Tips

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/listenandwrite/raprealm/index.htm

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/g/garden.html

http://tritt.wirefire.com/home.html

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