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Punctuation in a Pouch
PDF | 12 pages|Grades: F - 2A fun marsupial-themed classroom display to help your students correct sentence punctuation.
Use this classroom display to help your students solve sentences missing the correct punctuation.
Your students will love to place each sentence into the pouch of the matching marsupial!
This resource comes a Punctuation in a Pouch banner, 4 marsupials with pouches, and 40 sentence strips with punctuation that needs correcting, including:
- full stops
- question marks
- exclamation marks
- capital letters.
- Cut out each punctuation pouch and attach it to its matching marsupial with glue or tape.
- Provide students with one or more sentence strips and ask them to place it in its matching pouch.
- If a sentence has more than one pouch, re-write the sentence on another strip to place both versions in their matching pouches.
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Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELY1661
Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagramsElaborationsref...
- ACELY1652
Participate in shared editing of studentsรขยย own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stopsElaborationsrereading collaboratively developed texts to check that they communicate what the authors intended (Skills: Literacy, Critical ...
- ACELY1672
Re-read and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structureElaborationsreading their work and adding, deleting or changing words, prepositional phrases or sentences to improve meaning, for example replacing an everyday noun w...
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