The book explains all the rules that third-graders need to know for capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and usage based on the Common Core Standards for Grade 3, “Conventions of Standard English.”

After reviewing each set of rules, students apply them by completing exercises. These are followed by multiple-choice questions just like those on the actual test.

The book is 3-hole punched and its pages are perforated, so that students can tear them out to turn in or to exchange with other students to check their corrections.

The book is cumulative. Each set of practice exercises includes errors based on rules covered in previous chapters, so that students can constantly review material they have learned and build on their prior knowledge.

By the time your students have worked their way through this book, they will have reviewed all the relevant rules, and practiced them with multiple-choice questions on each rule. This will allow your students to approach the real test with confidence and experience.

This book will do more than help your students pass the test. It will help them write English correctly with confidence!

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WRITING CONVENTIONS

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LESSON 17: PRONOUNS 95

Directions: Choose the answer with the pronoun that agrees with the nounor nouns in the sentence.

1 A Maggie lost his gloves.B John told her sister.C Cody is going with his friend.D Maggie and Yvette ate her dinners.

2 A The kittens ran to her mother.B They want his dinners.C Olivia left her homework at home.D Cody lost their way home.

3 A Rolle and Tom went to his neighborhood library.B He ate his apple in the movie.C They lost his way in the new neighborhood.D Jacob told her favorite funny story.

4 A Gianna cleaned her house.B The children sang in his school play.C The children enjoy having her lunches.D Mark and Barry met her skiing instructor.

In this lesson, you learned that a pronoun must “agree”with the noun it stands for. Here, Choice A is wrong.Maggie is a girl’s name, so the pronoun should be her nothis. Choice B is also wrong. Since John is a male, the cor-rect pronoun for John should be his not her. Choice D iswrong, too. Maggie and Yvette are plural, so the correctpronoun should be their. Choice C is correct. Cody is singu-lar and male. So is the pronoun his.

The answer to the first question of each set of

multiple-choice questions is always fully explained.

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This summary chapter consists of two parts. First, there is a graphic organizerthat shows all the rules you have just learned about when to capitalize andwhen not to capitalize. The second part of this chapter has practice ques-tions testing your knowledge of these rules.

A REVIEW OF THE RULESWhen you edit a paragraph, be sure to apply all of these rules:

Rules forCapitalization

Alwayscapitalize

“I”.

Capitalize thefirst letter at

the beginning ofeach sentence.

Capitalize specificplaces, such as streets, cities,

states, countries, and oceans.

Capitalize thedays of the week,

months, andspecific holidays.

Capitalize people’s names, includingany title that ispart of a name.

Capitalize the firstword and all mainwords in titles ofbooks and other literary works.

Do not capitalizeother wordsexcept those

indicated here.

LESSON 8

SUMMARY OF CAPITALIZATION

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Each major unit ends with a concept map that reviews all the rules for that topic — capitalization, punctuation,

or grammar.

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y Asingular subject refers to one person, place, or thing. If the subject of thesentence is singular, you must use a verb in its singular form. The verbmust “agree” with its subject— the person or thing that does the action.

y A plural subject refers to more than one person, place, or thing. Ifthe subject of the sentence is plural, you must use a verb in its pluralform. The verb must “agree” with its subject.

The subject and verb agree.Correct

He eats cereal.

eatsis a singular verb

Heis a singular subject

He eat cereal. Here the subject “he” is singular.

The verb ”eat” is plural.There is no agreement.

Incorrect

IMPORTANT RULES

LESSON 16

SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

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Have you ever had a “play date” with a friend? You have to agree on what to do. In a sentence, there also has to be “agreement.”The verb has to “agree” with the subject of the sentence.

Challenging topics, like subject-verb agreement,

are explained in terms appropriate to third-graders.

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THE COMPOUND SENTENCEy A compound sentence is made up of two simple sentences “glued”

together. A special word, known as a coordinating conjunction, actsas the “glue” that holds the two sentences together.

In this sentence, the coordinating conjunction is and. Can you seethe two sentences that were “glued” together? Write each one in thespace below:

And is the most common coordinating conjunction. Other coordi-nating conjunctions that act as “glue” in a sentence are but, or, andso. Use but to show a contrast for two things that are not alike.

Notice that there is always a comma before the coordinating conjunction.

SENTENCE GLUEAnd

But

Or

So

coordinating conjunctions

Olivia went to the store, but Tashia stayed home. Derrick was hungry, so he ate an apple.

Derrick went to school, and Tashia stayed home.

A plethora of illustrations and practice exercises

reinforce student understanding of the rules.

INTRODUCTION

IMPORTANT RULES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1CAPITALIZATION

LESSON 1. CAPITALIZE “I” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2LESSON 2. CAPITALIZE SENTENCE BEGINNINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5LESSON 3. CAPITALIZE SPECIFIC PLACES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9LESSON 4. CAPITALIZE DATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15LESSON 5. CAPITALIZE PEOPLE’S NAMES AND TITLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20LESSON 6. CAPITALIZE THE TITLES OF BOOKS AND OTHER WORKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26LESSON 7. WHEN NOT TO CAPITALIZE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31LESSON 8. SUMMARY OF CAPITALIZATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36PUNCTUATION

LESSON 9. END SENTENCES WITH THE PROPER PUNCTUATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40LESSON 10. USE APOSTROPHES FOR POSSESSION AND CONTRACTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51LESSON 11. USE QUOTATION MARKS FOR DIRECT SPEECH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60LESSON 12. USE OF COMMAS IN ADDRESSES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66LESSON 13. SUMMARY OF PUNCTUATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70GRAMMAR

LESSON 14. NOUNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74LESSON 15. VERBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83LESSON 16. SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89LESSON 17. PRONOUNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93LESSON 18. ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97LESSON 19. SENTENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104LESSON 20. SUMMARY OF GRAMMAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113SPELLING

LESSON 21. SPELLING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116FINAL PRACTICE

LESSON 22. PRACTICE TESTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

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In the first eight lessons of this book, you learned about capitalization. Inthe next five lessons, you will learn about punctuation.

Punctuation marks act as signs to the reader. They tell a reader when tostop, pause or change expression. They also tell a reader when a sentenceends. This helps the reader to understand what is written.

Do you know the most important punctuation marks?

In Lesson 2, you learned to begin each sentence with a capital letter. In thislesson, you will learn how to end sentences.

HOW TO END A SENTENCE

WHAT IS PUNCTUATION?

LESSON 9

END SENTENCES WITHTHE PROPER PUNCTUATION

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pause change expression.?!,‘

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Period

Question Mark

Exclamation Point

Comma

Apostrophe

Quotation Marks

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