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Expanding Sentences with Semicolons, Commas, Parentheses, and Dashes

Expanding Sentences with Semicolons, Commas, Parentheses, and Dashes

Posted on February 13, 2017March 12, 2018 by Lauren Crowley
If your students are anything like mine, they overuse parentheses (where they learned this, I have no idea!) and they view semi-colons to be as about as foreign as hieroglyphics. Although punctuation ... Read More
Plural vs Possessive Worksheet

Plural vs Possessive Worksheet

Posted on July 27, 2016March 5, 2017 by Lauren Crowley
[insert_php] // INSTRUCTIONS: array(“url”,”title”,”type”,”size”), // AND only the last array() line does NOT have a comma at the end $downloads = array(... Read More

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Hi, I'm Lauren. I'm in my tenth year of teaching secondary ELA and occasionally world history. I'm a returned Peace Corps volunteer, a master's graduate, and a new mom!

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