We have spent the past two weeks thinking about punctuation in reading and in writing!
First, we were punctuation detectives. We looked for it in our books and practiced reading with punctuation in mind! We looked at periods, commas, question marks, ellipses, and exclamation points. We wrote what we found on post-it notes and shared them with partners.
Our Morning Message was written with NO PUNCTUATION! It was so hard to read, we ran out of breath! We decided to add in new punctuation marks and remembered to put in capital letters for the start of the sentences. We read the message after we made our corrections and it sounded so much better.
After a week of practice, we decided to try our hand at adding punctuation marks. This is what some of the authors in our class came up with...
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