Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Prepping for the ELA

We are slowly starting to prepare the students for the big ELA given in May. You may be thinking that May is a long time away. You are very correct, but there is a lot of ground to cover for these tests. Today I started working with a small group of third graders on punctuation marks. We discussed the various marks and when to use them. Then we practiced this skill with a hands on approach. Check it out...

The girls had a lot of fun finding and inserting the correct punctuation marks in the sentences as well as after abbreviations.