Punctuation Takes a Vacation!

During work on writing, writers' workshop, letter writing, and during our phonics instruction, you can hear students in my classroom reminding one another, "don't let your punctuation take a vacation!"  Whether your child is learning about periods, exclamation points, colons, question marks, quotation marks, commas, or apostrophes, students are remembering not to leave these important parts of writing out.  INQUIRE with your child how their work would sound if those marks, "took a vacation."