Lesson 1.2: Ending Punctuation & Audience Print Lesson

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Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child when and where to use ending punctuation, as well as the role of the audience in writing.

Do you notice lots of ending punctuation mistakes in your child’s writing, or do you simply want them to ease into a regular writing habit? Lesson 1.2: Ending Punctuation & Audience is a great way to introduce your child to focused writing work and ensure they learn to place ending punctuation, including around parentheses and quotation marks. Our lessons combine original writing challenges suitable to the physical and emotional ability of younger children and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.

Included in this booklet:

✔️ 2 fun video lessons
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing
✔️ Glossary

When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download.

Length: 38 pages

Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child when and where to use ending punctuation, as well as the role of the audience in writing.

Do you notice lots of ending punctuation mistakes in your child’s writing, or do you simply want them to ease into a regular writing habit? Lesson 1.2: Ending Punctuation & Audience is a great way to introduce your child to focused writing work and ensure they learn to place ending punctuation, including around parentheses and quotation marks. Our lessons combine original writing challenges suitable to the physical and emotional ability of younger children and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.

Included in this booklet:

✔️ 2 fun video lessons
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing
✔️ Glossary

When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download.

Length: 38 pages

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).