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Learning outcomes
Students will identify and use periods and question marks in
their writing with 90%
accuracy.
Activities
1. The teacher will take a deep breath and read a story of at
least 3 sentences that iswritten on the board without any
punctuation in it.
2. The teacher will then explain to the students that
punctuation is very importantbecause it tells the reader when to
pause or stop when reading. The teacher will
explain that periods are used at the end of telling sentences.
The teacher will have
students hold up their period stick to tell her to stop at the
end of the sentence.
3. The teacher will show students two examples of telling
sentences from the sentencestrips in the pocket chart. Then, the
teacher will explain that question marks are
used at the end of asking sentences. The teacher and students
will make a list of
question words (what, why, could, may, etc.) that signal that
the sentence needs a
question mark. Then the teacher will have students hold up their
question stick to
signal that the sentence is a question. (Teachers with
Spanish-speaking or Spanish-
learning students should mention that in Spanish the question
mark comes at boththe beginning and end of a question.)
4. Next, the teacher will show students two examples of asking
sentences in the pocketchart.
5. Last, the teacher will explain that exclamation points are
used at the end ofsentences that show strong feeling or
excitement.
6. The teacher will show students two examples of exciting
sentences.7. The teacher will tell students that now they are going
to read the story on the board
together aloud and when they see a ________, they are to decide
whether a period
or a question mark goes there and hold up their sticks.
8. The teacher will model how they are to respond when she says,
show me.Students are to hold up pumpkin sticks with punctuation
marks when the teacher
says show me.
9. The class reads through the story on the board showing their
period/questionmark/exclamation point pumpkin sticks.
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10.Then the teacher will tell the students that now they are
going to write descriptivesentences about pumpkins using correct
punctuation. They need to have at least
one telling sentence, one asking sentence, and one exciting
sentence.
11.Students will be provided with individual pumpkin word banks
of descriptive words.The teacher will pull a small group of
students that need extra support and
assistance in writing. The teacher will set the timer for about
20 minutes. When the
timer goes off, the teacher will tell the students that they
will have the opportunity
to share their sentences tomorrow.
12.For the conclusion of the lesson, the teacher will show the
students three sentencesin the pocket chart and have them hold up
their punctuation sticks to determine if
they need a period, question mark, or exclamation point and they
will state orally
what each one is used for.
