Have you been looking for a way to help your students improve their writing?

There is no better way to learn writing mechanics than through continued practice. The Writing Mechanics Sentence Challenge Bundle provides you the perfect resource to do that!

This bundle provides so many opportunities for learning, practice, and mastery of all writing mechanics concepts.

All sentence challenges include a control with the answers provided for children to correct their own work. (We checked multiple sources to ensure we were using the most up to date rules.)

Each set of fifty sentence challenges builds off of the previous one, following the sequence of the Montessori Language Album. (Printable packs are listed in the correct sequence below.)

Each printable pack is color coded to help you stay organized.

Whether you choose to have students do one or two sentence challenges a day for review and practice, or divide them up as you teach lessons about each topic, they're sure to be helpful and quite a hit!

Writing Mechanics Sentence Challenge Bundle

The Writing Mechanics Sentence Challenge Bundle includes seven topics and 350 sentence challenges! 

Each set of sentence challenges tackles multiple rules regarding the topic.

Here are just a few rules for each sentence challenge printable pack that are included!

Capitalization Sentence Challenges

This printable pack includes several rules about capitalization. 

Here are just a few that are included:

• Capitalize the first letter of the first word in a sentence.
• Capitalize proper nouns, such as places, names of people, nationalities, religions, languages, days, months, events, brand names, planets, etc. 
• Capitalize titles that replace a person's first name.

Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points Sentence Challenges

This printable pack includes multiple rules for using periods, question marks and exclamation points. 

Here are just a few that are included:

• Use a period at the end of a declaration or sentence.
• Use a question mark at the end of a direct question. 
• Use an exclamation point after an interjection. 

Apostrophes Sentence Challenges

This printable pack includes many rules for using apostrophes in sentences. 

Here are just a few that are included:

• Use apostrophes to show that a person owns something or when something belongs to someone. 
• Use an apostrophe after the "o" when writing out the time of day, as in six o'clock. 
• Use apostrophes in contractions or omissions. 

Commas Sentence Challenges

This printable pack includes several rules for using commas in sentences, including how to use the Oxford (or serial) comma.  

Here are just a few that are included:

• Use a comma before writing out a direct quote as part of a sentence. 
• Use a comma to make a list of two or more items or elements in a sentence, putting a comma after each item listed, until there is only one item left on the list. 
• Use a comma to separate a city from a state and a street address from a city and state.

Quotation Marks Sentence Challenges

This printable pack includes many rules for quotation marks in the U.S. style of mechanics. 

Here are just a few that are included:

• Use quotation marks when directly quoting another person in a sentence.
• Use quotation marks when writing the titles of smaller works, such as poems, book chapters, newspaper and magazine articles, and essays. 
• Use quotation marks to highlight a word in a sentence.

Hyphens Sentence Challenges

This printable pack includes several uses of hyphens in sentences. 

Here are just a few that are included:

• Use a hyphen between each word of a multiple word adjective right before a noun in a sentence. 
• Use a hyphen when writing out fractions in a sentence. 
• Use a hyphen to avoid awkward repetition of vowels when adding a prefix to a word. 

Colons and Semicolons Sentence Challenges

This printable pack includes many rules for using colon and semicolons in sentences. Here are three of them:

• Use a colon when writing out the time of day, to separate hours from minutes and minutes from seconds.
• Use a colon to separate a title from a subtitle in a sentence. 
• Use a semicolon to join together two clauses using a conjunctive verb such as however, moreover, indeed, finally, likewise, etc. 

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How do you purchase the Writing Mechanics Sentence Challenge Bundle?

To purchase your digital file (PDF copy) click the "Add to Cart" button below. The file can be read on any computer or mobile device, and can be printed at any time. To access printables, click on the links within the digital file, find the pages you need, print them, and prepare for activities.

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For those who don't want the entire Writing Mechanics Sentence Challenge Bundle, individual printable packs can be purchased separately by clicking on the images below.