A Fresh Approach to Teaching Punctuation: Helping Young Writers Use Conventions with Precision and Purpose

by Janet Angelillo

Overview

How do you teach punctuation in a way that students remember and apply to their own writing? With these mini-lessons, and partner and small-group activities, students catch on to the power of punctuation by looking at how favorite authors use it and by noticing it in advertising, newspapers, and all kinds of text. The author shares great ideas for using picture books and big books, chapter books and more for learning about commas, capitalization, dashes, ellipses, and more. Suddenly, students are motivated to improve the punctuation in their own writing, because they see how punctuation is used by writers they admire. Includes lots of punctuation practice ideas, teaching ideas for all year, lessons, and tips for conferring with students about their work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545181594
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2002
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Janet Angelillo is a literacy consultant who works with elementary and middle-school teachers in urban and suburban schools across the United States and Canada. A classroom educator for many years, Janet taught middle school and upper grades in New York City and the suburbs. She is a doctoral student at Columbia University’s Teachers College, and the author of several articles on writing as well as A Fresh Approach to Teaching Punctuation and Making Revision Matter (both Scholastic) and Writing About Reading (Heinemann).