Kung- Fu punctuation!

Show me your Kung- fu exclamation mark!

Let’s share read these sentences and identify where our Kung- Fu exclamation mark would

go!

Minpins of the forest

Little Billy felt triumphant

What is the purpose of an exclamation mark?How does our voice change when we read one?

Can we share read this?

What writing skills do you see being used?

What impact does this have on our story?

My top tips for retrieval:

- Read your sentence.- Underline the keywords.- What is the question asking you?- Find the keywords from the

question in the text.

Mission:

Identify a sentence with a ! on the page you’ve just read and answer these questions below:

A sentence I’ve identified is

We use exclamation marks to show

A command is a An example of a command sentence is

Challenge

Write a short paragraph either on this slide or in your English book to describe the characters in our story.

The characters are