Publisher's Synopsis
NOTE: This version is US-English (also available in British-English) An Adventure in Punctuation! Bumper punctuation and writing workbook with over 90 punctuation and creative writing challenges designed to help children develop their confidence and understanding of writing. The challenges are based around the theme of 'Mermaids & Water Monsters' and challenge students to rewrite sections of unpunctuated text. Learning is reinforced with additional challenges related to the text including creative writing and drawing tasks. Each method of punctuation is described in simple step-by-step terms. Unit 1 includes challenges based on the following: Demarcating sentences with capital letters and periods Using capital letters for the personal pronoun 'I' Using capital letters for names and titles Using capitals for place names Using capital letters for days of the week and months of the year Writing questions with an initial interrogative pronoun Writing questions created by subject-verb inversion Using exclamation marks with exclamative sentences The words used for challenges include high-frequency words and words introduced during the first parts of schooling. Further resources are available from: www.monsterpunctuation.com
