Lesson 1.2: Ending Punctuation & Audience
Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted learners spacing conventions in writing.
Included in this package:
✔️ 1 fun video lesson: Ready to share with your student(s) with no additional setup
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill: Assign using SeeSaw or use as printouts
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz
✔️ Robust teacher’s guide: Includes detailed tips and tricks for teaching each activity, answer keys, scoring recommendations, and more.
Suitable for one-on-one use or small group or classroom settings; our teacher guide gives you tips and support for each method.
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Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted learners spacing conventions in writing.
Included in this package:
✔️ 1 fun video lesson: Ready to share with your student(s) with no additional setup
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill: Assign using SeeSaw or use as printouts
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz
✔️ Robust teacher’s guide: Includes detailed tips and tricks for teaching each activity, answer keys, scoring recommendations, and more.
Suitable for one-on-one use or small group or classroom settings; our teacher guide gives you tips and support for each method.
When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with links to all of the above.
Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted learners spacing conventions in writing.
Included in this package:
✔️ 1 fun video lesson: Ready to share with your student(s) with no additional setup
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill: Assign using SeeSaw or use as printouts
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz
✔️ Robust teacher’s guide: Includes detailed tips and tricks for teaching each activity, answer keys, scoring recommendations, and more.
Suitable for one-on-one use or small group or classroom settings; our teacher guide gives you tips and support for each method.
When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with links to all of the above.
Resources included in your purchases:
Video lessons
Practice 1.2.1: Introduction to memes
Practice 1.2.2: Making memes 1
Practice 1.2.3: Why do we use periods and question marks?
Practice 1.2.4: Making memes 2
Quiz 1.2.5: Ending punctuation & audience
Teacher Guide
Robust support from June Writers Academy
Skills in focus:
A period is the small, single dot that we put at the end of the last word in a sentence to indicate the end of that sentence.
A question mark is the ? that we put at the end of the last word in a sentence to indicate both the end of that sentence and that the sentence is a question.
An exclamation mark is the ! that we put at the end of the last word in a sentence to indicate the end of that sentence and to give the sentence more emotion. Try not to use this mark too often in formal writing.
Spacing
There is no space before the ending punctuation mark.
Put one space* after your ending punctuation and before the start of the first word of the next sentence.
Ending punctuation & parentheses
When you have a full, standalone sentence in parentheses, the ending punctuation goes before the final parentheses.
If the parenthesis is within a sentence, the ending punctuation goes outside the parenthesis.
Ending punctuation & quotation marks
A period goes inside the closing quotation mark.
Exclamation points and question marks go inside the ending quotation mark if the mark belongs to the quoted material.
Exclamation points and question marks go outside the ending quotation mark if the mark is not part of the quotation.
Multiple ending punctuation marks
Use one exclamation point only in formal writing.
The only two ending punctuation marks we use together are the question mark and exclamation mark. When we do this, the question mark goes before the exclamation mark (?!).
Emojis
We recommend putting the period or question mark directly after the emoji, with no space 🤓. This is for situations with multiple sentences.
Put the emoji after the ending punctuation if it is at the end of a text. 🤓
* Some teachers prefer two spaces–a legacy of the original design of typewriters (specifically, font availability and width).