Page Overview: Based on individual student needs as determined by Criterion® Online Writing Evaluation Service, this page provides access to various online skill builders to enhance writing performance.
Student Instructions:
- Your teacher has provided you with the skills practice checklist on which you will complete after every activity.
- Select the heading and subheading that matches your needed skill practice and then find the matching activites below.
- The activities in black font coorespond to a book and page, where as the activites in blue font are links to an online activity.
- Complete the activities in the order they are laid out. After completing each activity, record the score (80% accuracy needed to continue), have it initialed, and continue onto the next assigned activity.
Individual Skill Builer Activities:
Grammar Errors
- Fragments
Language Network; Reference p. 290-291
Language Network; p. 27; Ex. A
Language Network; p. 27; Ex. B
Language Network; p. 187; Ex. A
Language Network; p. 188; Ex. B
- Sentence Fragments Practice # 1
- Sentence Fragment Practice # 2
- Sentence Fragments Practice # 3
- Fix the Fragments in the Paragraph
- Run-on Sentence
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Language Network; Reference p.226, p.292-293
Language Network; p. 210; Ex. A
Language Network; p. 210; Ex. B
Language Network; p. 212; Ex. A
Language Network; p. 212; Ex. B
Language Network; p. 215; Ex. A
Language Network; p. 215; Ex. B
Language Network; p. 218; Ex. A
Language Network; p. 221; Ex. A
Language Network; p. 221; Ex. B
Language Network; p. 224; Ex. A
Language Network; p. 224; Ex. B
Language Network; p. 631; Ex. 1
Language Network; p. 631; Ex. 2
Language Network; p. 632; Ex. 3
Language Network; p. 632; Ex. 4
Language Network; p. 633; Ex. 5
- Subject-Verb Agreement Practice # 1
- Subject-Verb Agreement Practice # 2
- Subject-Verb Agreement Practice # 3
- Subject-Verb Agreement Practice # 4
- Pronoun Antecedent Agreement # 1
- Pronoun Antecedent Agreement # 2
- Pronoun & Tense Consistency
- Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz # 1
- Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz # 2
- Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz # 3
- Possessive
Language Network; p. 43; Practice & Apply - A
Language Network; p. 43; Practice & Apply - B
Language Network; p. 607-8; Ex. 3
- Plurals & Possessives
- Possessive Adjectives & Pronouns
- Ill-formed Verbs
Language Network; p. 104; Practice & Apply
Language Network; p. 107; Ex. B
Language Network; p. 114; Ex. A
Language Network; p. 114; Ex. B
Language Network; p. 618; Ex. 5
Language Network; p. 619; Ex. 8
Write Source; p. 723; Verbs 3
- Double Negatives
- Language Network; p. 143; Practice & Apply - A
- Language Network; p. 143; Practice & Apply - B
- Language Network; p. 624 -5; Practice & Apply - 7
- Double Negatives Quiz
- Double Negatives Quiz - Level A
- Double Negatives Quiz - Level B
- Double Negatives Quiz - Level C
Usage Errors
Mechanics Errors
- Spelling
- Capitalized Proper Nouns & Missing Initial Capital Letter in a Sentence
- Language Network; p. 232; Practice & Apply
- Language Network; p. 235; Practice & Apply - A
- Language Network; p. 238; Practice & Apply - A
- Language Network; p. 241; Practice & Apply - A
- Language Network; p. 241; Practice & Apply - B
- Language Network; p. 633; Ex. 1
- Language Network; p. 634; Ex. 2
- Language Network; p. 634 -5; Ex. 3
- Language Network; p. 635; Ex. 4
- Exercise in Capitalization
- Sentence Punctuation
- Missing Apostrophe
- Missing Comma
- Write Source; p. 591; Commas 5
- Commas - Fill in the Blank
- Commas in Coordinating Conjunctions
- Commas in Introductory Phrases
- Comma Quiz
- Compund Words
- Language Network; p. 608-4; Ex. 4
- Language Network; p.45; Practice & Apply - A
- Language Network; p.45; Practice & Apply - B
- Compound Words
- Compound Nouns
- Compound Words - Matching Game # 1
- Compound Words - Matching Game # 2
- Compound Nouns and Modifiers
Stylistic Errors
- Repetition of Words
- Coordinating Conjunctions
- Too Many Short Sentences
- Language Network; p. 333; Practice
- Language Network; p. 334; Practice – A
- Language Network; p. 335; Practice – B
- Language Network; p. 336; Practice – A
- Language Network; p. 337; Practice – B
- Create Compound Sentences
- Combining Sentences
- Compound Sentences & Punctuation
- Combine the Sentences
- Combining Four Short Sentences # 1
- Combining Four Short Sentences # 2