Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Writing
I am really struggling with a small group of kiddos on the topic of ending punctuation. They are becoming better at writing down their ideas but still do not include punctuation at the ends of their sentences. When I prompt them to find something that is missing from the sentences, they have no idea. HELP! I have tried having them dictate their sentences to me and then they have to copy what I have written. But, even then, they seem to not even see the punctuation mark at the end. I have tried having mini lessons centered around periods, exclamation marks and question marks and they grasp the concept in isolation. However, when I want them to transfer the skill to their writing, they do not do it. Has anyone else struggled with this and found a way to help them understand the concept?
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I have the same problem. I have been trying out some highlighting. I have some examples of sentences missing the end mark that I made and then have them put the end mark where it goes. Then we go through and highlight the end marks as we read. We talk about why the end mark goes there. I am trying to get them to hear where the idea ends and the next idea starts. Then we go through our writing pieces and do the same. I have also done a mini lesson about why we have end marks. We go through a couple sentences I wrote with out end marks and I read it all as one big sentence. The kids laugh because I don't take a breath. I tell them that we need to add some end marks so I know when to take a breath. Hope this helps.
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