Punctuation Grade 6

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PunctuationGrade 6

• Daily Language Workouts
• Writers Express
• Houghton Mifflin Company
• Wilmington, Massachusetts

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Did You Know? (Using the right word, subject-verb
agreement, apostrophe)

is your

• A sneeze are youre bodys weigh of getting rid of
  irritants.
• Did you no that its impossible to sneeze and
  keep your eyes open at the same time
• There are about 50 bones in a pair of human foots
  the doctor explained.

way

know
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feet
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More Science Facts (Using the right word,
apostrophe)

• Accept for the fact that it can be burned, its
  almost impossible to destroy human hare.
• When you eat a peace of fresh crunchy celery, you
  burn more caleries then the celery contains.

Except

hair.
,
piece
calories
than
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Physical Science (Using the right word,
subject-verb agreement, parentheses)

• Taste buds cant taste anything if their dry they
  requires saliva to work.
• Would you believe that a persons tongue print is
  as unique as their fingerprints
• Clouds flies more higher during the day than
  during the night.

theyre
(
require

his or her
?
fly
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Believe It or Not (Parallelism, apostrophe,
comma, end punctuation)

,

• Well I bet you cant breathe, chew, and be
  swallowing at the same time
• If your right-handed your fingernails grow faster
  on youre right hand.
• A peanut isnt no nut, its a bean.
• Did you no that plants breathes out the oxygen we
  need too breathe in

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swallow
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your
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know
breathe
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Parachutes to Planets (Comma, using the right
word, numbers, spelling, capitalization)

• The parachute was used in 1783 to save people,
  whom had to jump from burning buildings high
  towers and other dangerous places.
• Earth moves threw space 8 times faster than a
  speeding bullit.

who
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,
eight
through
Bullet.
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Parachutes to Planets (Comma, using the right
word, numbers, spelling, capitalization)
United

• At one time someone in the united states dyed of
  Cancer every ninety seconds.
• Cold water is heavier then hot water and weighs
  more as well.
• The flat wide rings of saturn is thin less than
  two miles thick.

States
died
cancer
90
than
.

,
Saturn are
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Science and Scientists

• Thomas Edison one of the worlds greatest
  inventors were deaf from the age of 12, and didnt
  go to school.
• Light moved at such an out of this world rate
  186000 miles per second that it doesnt seem to
  move at all.

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,
was

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-
moves
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Big and Strange
largest

• The most large whale ever measured buy humans
  were 98 foots long.
• Although a whales heart can be as big as a car it
  beats only 9 times a minute.
• In the Galapagos Islands, Darwin watched a
  blue-footed booby as it swimmed in shallow water
  the booby is a funny looking fishing bird.

by
was
feet

,
nine
Islands,
.The
swam
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Land, Water and Air

• Did you no, a yaks milk are pink?
• Our biology teacher learned us that vampire bats
  drinks up to 46 pints of blood in 1 year
• Corrected sentence
• Did you know a yaks milk is pink?
• Our biology teacher taught us that vampire bats
  drink up to 46 pints of blood in one year.

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Land, Water and Air

• The bee hummingbird lies an egg thats about one
  third of an inch long.
• A crocodile it doesnt never chew its food-- it
  swallows it hole.
• Corrected sentence
• The bee hummingbird lays an egg thats about
  one-third of an inch long.
• A crocodile doesnt chew its food-- it swallows
  it whole.

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Animals Wild and Tame

• A beavers teeth never stop growing but they get
  weared down when the beaver chews on hard rough
  bark.
• A squirrel seas only in black and white, Ralph
  Lando Ph.D. reported.

,
worn
,


sees
,
,
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Animals Great and Small

• The average hummingbird there are 19 varieties in
  the United States way less then a penny, wow.
• Corrected sentence
• The average hummingbird (there are 19 varieties
  in the United States) weighs less than a penny.
  Wow!

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Animals Great and Small

• A baby kangaroo is only about a inch long at
  berth it can survive only in its mothers pouch.
• Corrected sentence
• A baby kangaroo is only about an inch long at
  birth. It can survive only in its mothers pouch.

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Animals Great and Small

• If a goldfish is kept in the dark will it loose
  its bright wonderful color.
• Corrected sentence
• If a goldfish is kept in the dark, will it lose
  its bright, wonderful color?

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Animals and Insects

• Every year millions of trees are planted by
  squirrels whom buries nuts and then forgets ware
  they put them.
• Corrected sentence
• Every year millions of trees are planted by
  squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where
  they put them.

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Animals and Insects

• Sum kindes of ants rule other ants they attack
  them, kidnap them, and then are keeping them as
  slaves.
• Corrected sentences
• Some kinds of ants rule other ants they attack
  them, kidnap them, and keep them as slaves.

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Animals and Insects

• A aunt can lift 50 times its own wait all by
  himself.
• Corrected sentence
• An aunt can lift 50 times its own weight all by
  itself.

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Amazing Creatures

• Mr. Walters told us that A starfish is the only
  animal able to turn its stomach inside out.
• Corrected sentence
• Mr. Walters told us that a starfish is the only
  animal able to turn its stomach inside out.

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Amazing Creatures

• When their troop carrying steamship sand off the
  coast of South Africa in 1942 about 700 men were
  ate by sharks.
• Corrected sentence
• When their troop-carrying steamship sank off the
  coast of South Africa in 1942, about 700 men were
  eaten by sharks.

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Amazing Creatures

• The great white sharks teeth are as hard as
  steal.
• Centipedes have a lot of legs, two poison fangs,
  and they have three pears of jaws.
• Corrected sentences
• The great white sharks teeth are as hard as
  steel.
• Centipedes have a lot of legs, two poison fangs,
  and three pairs of jaws.

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Geography Facts

• date-palm trees, a source of wealth, is past down
  from 1 generation too the next in iraq.
• indias real name is bharat, and their capital is
  new delhi.
• Corrected sentences
• Date-palm trees, a source of wealth, are passed
  down from one generation to the next in Iraq.
• Indias real name is Bharat, and its capital is
  New Delhi.

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Geography Facts

• Class people who live in Argentina eats more meat
  than people anywhere else in the world said Ms.
  Latitude to the students.
• Corrected sentence
• Class, people who live in Argentina eat more
  meat than people anywhere else in the world,
  said Ms. Latitude to the students.

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Where in the World?

• There is a dessert in AK that have sand dunes
  more than 100 foot high.
• Greenland is covered buy a thick layer of ice
  that never melt.
• Corrected sentences
• There is a desert in Alaska that has sand dunes
  more than 100 feet high.
• Greenland is covered by a thick, hard layer of
  ice that never melts.

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Where in the World?

• My grandmother in California made jewelry and she
  tells me, pure Gold, like clay, is so soft that
  it can be molded with your hands and it is mixed
  with harder metals to make jewelry and other
  items.
• Corrected sentence
• My grandmother in California, makes jewelry. She
  tells me, Pure gold, like clay, is so soft that
  it can be molded with your hands. It is mixed
  with harder metals to make jewelry and other
  items.

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Around the World

• the great wall of china is the only man made
  structure that can be scene from space with the
  naked eye.
• Corrected sentence
• The Great Wall of China is the only man-made
  structure that can be seen from space with the
  naked eye.

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Around the World

• did you know that people in Ancient China would
  build their towns from the air to look like
  animals.
• Corrected sentence
• Did you know that people in ancient China would
  build their towns to look like animals from the
  air.

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Around the World

• In 1868, about 100000 meterites falled on Pultusk
  Poland in just one night.
• Corrected sentence
• In 1868, about 100,000 meteorites fell on
  Pultusk, Poland, in just one night.

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Baseball and Football Facts

• no woman have ever played in a Major-League
  Baseball game.
• Corrected sentence
• No woman has ever played in a major-league
  baseball game.

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Baseball and Football Facts

• In 1919, 8 player on the Chicago White Sox taked
  money from gamblers to loose the World Series on
  purpose.
• Corrected sentence
• In 1919, eight players on the Chicago White Sox
  took money from gamblers to lose the World Series
  on purpose.

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Baseball and Football Facts

• On April 8 1975, frank robinson the first black
  major-league baseball manager.
• Corrected sentence
• On April 8, 1975, Frank Robinson became the first
  black major-league baseball manager.

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Sports Firsts and Facts

• Isaac Murphy a famous African America jocky was
  the first man too win the Kentucky Derby 3 times.
• Corrected sentence
• Isaac Murphy, a famous African American jockey,
  was the first man to win the Kentucky Derby three
  times.

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Sports Firsts and Facts

• The first Indianapolis 500 was held on May 30
  1911 the prize were 25,000 dollars.
• Corrected sentence
• The first Indianapolis 500 was held on May 30,
  1911 the prize was 25,000.

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Sports First and Facts

• In 1927 Violet Cordery became the first woman to
  drive around the world traveling 10266 miles at
  24 miles per hour.
• Corrected sentence
• In 1927 Violet Cordery became the first woman to
  drive around the world, traveling 10,266 miles at
  24 miles per hour.

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Sports Personalities

• Mary Sutton Bundy were the first woman to win
  Wimbledon Tennis Championship and become the
  champion.
• Corrected sentence
• Mary Sutton Bundy was the first woman to win the
  Wimbledon Tennis Championship.

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Sports Personalities

• The earliest ice skates was maid of bone, the
  first world-famous figure skater was Sonja Henie
  of Norway.
• Corrected sentence
• The earliest ice skates were made of bone. The
  first world-famous figure skater was Sonja Henie
  of Norway.

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Sports Personalities

• Charles Lindbergh, sored threw the air as a sky
  diver before, they piloted his famous flight in
  The Spirit of St. Louis.
• Corrected sentence
• Charles Lindbergh soared through the air as a sky
  diver before he piloted his famous flight in The
  Spirit of St. Louis.

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The Environment and You

• Pollution filled smoke rains back to our earth as
  acid rain. It damages forests and lakes.
• Corrected sentence
• Pollution-filled smoke rains back to our earth as
  acid rain, damaging forests and lakes.

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The Environment and You

• A pesticide is an chemical used to kill Insects
  and make them die.
• While it takes a soda can about five hundred
  years to decay a glass bottle may remain
  unchanged fore a million years.
• Corrected sentences
• A pesticide is a chemical used to kill insects.
• While it takes a soda can about 500 years to
  decay, a glass bottle may remain unchanged for a
  million years.

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Pollution Control

• in 1969, the Cuyahoga river catched fire. It was
  filled with toxic waist.
• Did you no that over 300,000 knew kinds of
  chemicals is formulated every year
• Corrected sentences
• In 1969, the Cuyahoga River caught fire because
  it was filled with toxic waste.
• Did you know that over 300,000 new kinds of
  chemicals are formulated every year?

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Pollution Control

• A person, who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day,
  puts half cup of tar in their lungs each
  year--and pollutes the air as well.
• Corrected sentence
• A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day
  puts a half cup of tar on his or her lungs each
  year--and pollutes the air as well.

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The American Colonies

• 14 people was executed between the years 1647 and
  sixteen sixty-two because they were thought to be
  whiches.
• Corrected sentence
• Fourteen people were executed between the years
  1647 and 1662 because they were thought to be
  witches.

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The American Colonies

• In the colonies, most women werent never aloud to
  go to school, didnt no how to read, and they
  couldnt vote.
• Corrected sentence
• In the colonies, most women werent allowed to go
  to school, didnt know how to read, and couldnt
  vote.

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The American Colonies

• William Penn he founded Pa. as a place wear
  Quakers they could practice there religion
  freely.
• Corrected sentence
• William Penn founded Pennsylvania as a place
  where Quakers could practice their religion
  freely.

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The Founding Fathers

• Born on January 17 1706, Benjamin Franklin the
  most young boy of 17 children and the son of a
  candlestick maker.
• Corrected sentence
• Born on January 17,1706, Benjamin Franklin was
  the youngest boy of 17 children and the son of a
  candlestick maker.

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The Founding Fathers

• Although he had only 2 years of formal edukation
  Ben Franklin was gived degrees by Harvard, Yale,
  and Oxford univercities.
• Corrected sentence
• Although he had only two years of formal
  education, Ben Franklin was given degrees by
  Harvard, Yale, and Oxford universities.

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The Founding Fathers

• When the U.S. were first established as a nation
  the Congress wanted to make George Washington the
  king.
• Corrected sentence
• When the United States was first established as a
  nation, the Congress wanted to make George
  Washington the king.

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Of Presidents and Daily Life

• In the 1800s, people commonly spit on there
  floors and taked baths only once a week.
• Corrected sentence
• In the 1800s, people spit on their floors and
  took baths only once a week.

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Of Presidents and Daily Life

• Abraham lincoln was the most tall president of
  the United States 6 feet 4 inches and no
  president has been taller.
• Corrected sentence
• Abraham Lincoln was the tallest president of the
  United States--6 feet 4 inches.

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Of Presidents and Daily Life

• Lincoln was sew unpopular in the South that six
  states left the Union, before he even had a
  chance too move into the white house.
• Corrected sentence
• Lincoln was so unpopular in the South that six
  states left the Union before he even had a chance
  to move into the White House.

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Proverbs

• Thomas Paine a friend of Ben Franklins wrote It
  is necessary too the happiness of man that he bee
  mentally faithful two himself.
• Corrected sentence
• Thomas Paine, a friend of Ben Franklins, wrote,
  It is necessary to the happiness of man that he
  be mentally faithful to himself.

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Proverbs

• Abraham Lincoln once said let us have fait that
  right make might.
• Beleive nothing of what you here, and only half
  of what you sea.
• Corrected sentences
• Abraham Lincoln once said, Let us have faith
  that right makes might.
• Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half
  of what you see.

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Proverbs

• The coarse of true love never did hardly ran
  smooth.
• Early too bed and early too rise made a man
  healthy wealthy and wise.
• Corrected sentences
• The course of true love never did run smooth.
• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man
  healthy, wealthy, and wise.

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Writing Prompts
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Touchdown! We made it!
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It was the greatest ride!
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The perfect place to live. . .
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There was something strange about that house. . .
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Thats one problem we HAVE to solve!
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Creepy, crawly things!
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The only sound in the night air. . .
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Money cant buy. . .
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Writing Topics
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Definitions

• Courage is . . .
• Happiness is . . .
• Music is . . .
• A pet is . . .
• A friend is . . .
• A good teacher is . . .
• Loneliness is . . .

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Characterization

• If I were . . .
• If I were a principal . . .
• If I were old . . .
• If I were lost . . .
• If I were famous . . .
• If I were deaf . . .

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Titles

• The Broken Computer
• The Blob That Ate (my city)
• The Money Tree
• The Magic Door
• The Flat Tire
• The Missing Show
• Instant Celebrity

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Compare and Contrast

• Freshwater to salt water
• Snow skiing to water-skiing
• Radio to television
• An amusement park to a nature preserve
• A river to a highway
• Outdoor jobs to desk jobs

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Compare and Contrast

• Talking by phone to communicating via e-mail
• Name brands to generics
• Outer space to ocean depths

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Real-Life Happenings

• My bravest moment
• My funniest experience
• The scariest time
• My worst meal
• My hero
• The oddest thing

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Real-Life Happenings

• My longest trip
• My greatest adventure
• An embarrassing moment
• A favorite relative
• My worst haircut
• My best birthday

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Credits

• Arnett, William A.. "The Nine Planets." 2001
  Feb.17. 29 May, 2002. lthttp//www.seds.org/billa/t
  np/gt.