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Punctuation marks come alive in this clever picture book featuring fourteen playful poems. Periods stop sentences in a baker’s shop, commas help a train slow down, quotation marks tell people what to do, and colons stubbornly introduce lists. This appealing primer is a surefire way to make... read more

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This book describes punctuation as a special game. It explains what a period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, apostrophe, quotation marks, colon, semicolon, parentheses, ellipses, dash, and hyphen are in fun rhymes along with examples. At the end it explains that all types of... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

This book describes punctuation as a special game. It explains what a period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, apostrophe, quotation marks, colon, semicolon, parentheses, ellipses, dash, and hyphen are in fun rhymes along with examples. At the end it explains that all types of punctuation work together as a team to create sentences, paragraphs and stories!

Classroom Use:
-great reference book for students to look through when they are editing
-introduce it in small parts, or as a general overview that can be revisited during the editing process
-have students focus on one or a couple punctuation marks and go back in their own writing and find places where they are missing or using the marks incorrectly and correctly!

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  1. Elsa Knight Bruno (Author)

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