Pre-reading Activities
1. K-W-L Chart
Click on
the link for the K-W-L worksheet and print it out. Fill out the worksheet
including information on punctuation marks you know and briefly explain what you
know about their purpose. Write any questions or other information you
wish to know about in the second column, headed "What do you want to
know?" After reading and doing other activities, fill out the third column
with information you learned about punctuation.
2. Read the following passage. Click on the link below the passage and print out the questions. Answer the questions based on the reading.
Heather went to the grocery store She needed to buy apples oranges grapes and milk for her party After going to the grocery store she went to the post office to mail her invitations The post office worker said You did not put stamps on your invitations Oh no Heather exclaimed Can I buy some stamps here No the postman said were all out If you come back at 400 well have a new shipment in Heather looked at her watch and realized it was only 115 so she went to buy some balloons for her party She spent so much time in the party shop that before she knew it it was 352 I had better get back to the post office she exclaimed Heather returned to the post office and realized that she had spent all of her money at the party shop Heather decided that she had better hand deliver them to her guests
3. After completing the
pre-reading activities, look over the following punctuation rules to
review.
Punctuation
rules
