Criterion Individualized Skill Builders

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:

1. Your teacher has provided you with the skills practice checklist on which you will complete after every activity.
2. Select the heading and subheading that matches your needed skill practice and then find the matching activites below.
3. The activities in black font coorespond to a book and page, where as the activites in blue font are links to an online activity.
4. 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
  • Run-on Sentences Practice # 1
  • Run-on Sentences Practice # 2
  • Repair Run-on Sentences Practice # 1
  • Avoiding Comma Splices Practice # 1
  • Avoiding Comma Splices Practice # 2 
• 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

  • Identify the Correct Verb Tense 

• 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

• Confused Words
  • Write Source; p.671; Ex. 10 & Next Step
  • Common Confusables Review # 1
  • Common Confusables Review # 2
  • There, They're, Their
  • Its, It's & There, They're, Their
  • To Lie, To Lay & To Sit, To Set
  • Except & Accept
• Articles
  • Choose a, an, or the - Practice # 1
  • Choose a, an, or the - Practice # 2
  • Choose a, an, or the - Novice Level
  • Choose a, an, or the - Intermediate Level
  • Choose a, an, or the - Upper Level
• Prepositions
  • Choose the correct preposition # 1
  • Choose the correct preposition # 2
  • Choose the correct preposition - Quiz
  • Prepositional Phrases
  • Identify & Type the prepositional Phrase
  • Preposition Crossword # 1
  • Preposition Crossword # 2
  • Preposition Crossword # 3

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
  • Punctuation Practice # 1
  • Punctuation Practice # 2
  • Punctuation Practice # 3
  • Punctuation Practice # 4
  • Punctuation Practice # 5
  • Punctuation Review Quiz

• Missing Apostrophe
  
  • Apostrophe Review Level A
  • Apostrophe Review Level B
  • Apostrophe Review Level C
  • Apostrophe Quiz
  • Apostrophe Game # 1
  • Apostrophe Game # 2

• 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
  • Reference and Quiz
  • Sentence Variety - Adding an Intro Clause
  • Sentence Variety - Varying Beginnings
  • Choose the Best Conjunction

• 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