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Roberta Gray,
Barbara Martin
This poem might be fun to post in the room and remind students of some of the usage rules.
Is he went?
Ms Shelow
This was e-mailed to me today and it gives me ideas of how to teach the conventions. Leave out all punctuation and see how children would put punctuation in. Model how different punctuation causes different meanings without changing word order.
An English professor wrote the words, "a woman without her man is nothing" on the blackboard and directed the students to punctuate it correctly.
The men wrote: "A woman, without her man, is nothing."
The women wrote: "A woman: without her, man is nothing."
Sherri Hurst,
Jackie Meehan
Was he gone?
Has he left I all alone?
Us can never go to he;
Him must always came to we.
It can never was!