BASIC PUNCTUATION LESSON PLAN

 

Teaching Materials

• Lesson - Business Writing Hyphens (see below for printable lesson)

• Hyphens editing article drill worksheet

 

Prerequisite:

Business Writing Introduction and Commas Usage.

 

Procedure:

Teachers may either print out this lesson and have students read it themselves, or use the lesson for giving your own business writing lesson.

 

Points to highlight:

• Punctuation for clarity and variety, not just to meet “arbitrary” rules.

• Here are some of the most common uses of these punctuation marks, but certainly NOT all the uses.

• Each of the rules listed.

 

 

 

 

Lesson Printable Materials - Worksheets

Print out the teaching lesson pages and exercise worksheets for use with this lesson:

 

1. BUSINESS WRITING INTRODUCTION LESSON - PUNCTUATION
	Business Writing Lesson -  Punctuation Usage * This is an introduction to business writing --  a lesson on comma usage.
2. BUSINESS WRITING - PUNCTUATION STUDENT EXERCISE
	Business Writing - Punctuation Student Exercise * Punctuate the following sentences (add “correct” punctuation, correct “bad” punctuation, and change punctuation for variety or clarity) according to the rules listed above, using every punctuation mark discussed above at least once on the worksheet. Hint – this can be done in variety of ways, and sometimes you might need to change the wording a bit to fit your punctuation revision!
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