Directions: Punctuate the following sentences correctly.
1) Ms. Triteacher, how do you manage to look so lovely every day the children asked.
2) How many years in a row did you win Ironman, inquired Sarah.
3) Was it just your 30th birthday that you celebrated, Ms. Triteacher, queried Brett.
4) Abbey asked, Where DID you get that outfit? It's fabulous!
Ostensibly, we're working on punctuating questions in dialogue. But OK, my ego's getting a few strokes too.
Until they all groan and burst my bubble.
What's with that?? :)
11 comments:
I love it...those are too fun! Don't let them burst your bubble, they're just being poops ;)
This brought to mind something my son told me yesterday. I finally learned how to text on the cell phone. He said, "Mom, when you send me a text, it doesn't have to be all grammatically correct with capital letters and punctuation!"
I can't help it...I loved grammar in school!
per cindy.
I love to text and use all the abbreviations, etc....
but when I email and especially write a letter (whats that??)
I have to have everything correct.
Those were cute questions triteacher
Teaching punctuation--or anything mechanical in nature--is so, so dull. You need to spice it up with a little vanity...:)
Are you teaching in middle school or high school?
I always used to make kids ask for things followed by..."Please, Ms. Palen whom I love very much and is the best speech teacher in the whole world!"
It was an exercise in auditory memory! :-0
HA!! That's great!
Clever!
By the way, my son is totally bothered by incorrect grammar and punctuation. He corrects it all the time or just sighs and shakes his head. Guess a teacher got to him somewhere along the line; maybe you'll do the same!
So did you show your kids the shiny medal you get for winning IronMan :)
Also, did I miss a b-day wish in there somewhere?
IronMatron - I teach both but I dared to use these on my middle schoolers.
Bubba - No birthday (well, November), but I'm never opposed to digging for all the positives - birthday wishes, compliments - from my students or blog readers that I can. ;)
You are so creative and clever. This reminds me of one time in the pre-Internet days when I had fill-in-the-blanks song lyrics. The idea was for my students to fill in the missing "prepositions" but in reality I was hoping to finally know what Vanilla Ice was saying on "Ice Ice Baby."
I'm glad to be a science teacher because I still have trouble with the proper placement of commas.
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