Bruno, Elsa Knight, and Jenny Whitehead. Punctuation celebration. New York: Henry Holt And Co., 2009. Print.
Poetry Collection
AGES: Scholastic grade level equivalent 3.4
SUMMARY:
Great collection of poetry that gets students thinking about punctuation. Each poem is a fun way to understand the rules of each type of punctuation, comma, apostrophe, ellipsis, exclamation point, quotation mark, parenthesis, period, dash, hyphen, semicolon, colon, and question mark. Elsa Knight Bruno even put in example poems using each type of punctuation. Each page is also filled with colorful illustrations that help students to further understand the poems. Great poetry book to use as an aid to help students further understand punctuation as well!
VOCABULARY:
abbreviate, apropos, clout, clauses, essential, enrapture, congregate, precede, omitted
TEACHING STRATEGIES: (read-a-loud)
Before: Discuss what poems are and what they are used for./ Briefly discuss the form of punctuation you will be talking about today.
During: have students interpret each poem and write down the rules for each type of punctuation
After: Have students create own punctuation poem.
ONLINE RESOURCES:
http://www.free-teacher-worksheets.com/punctuation-worksheets.html- free punctuation worksheets and exercises
http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/- Celebrate national punctuation day! September 24, 2011
http://us.macmillan.com/author/elsaknightbruno- all about author Elsa Knight Bruno
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