PUNCTUATION Takes a Vacation by Robin Pulver

Mr. Wright's class used punctuation daily! One day the question mark, exclamation point, comma, period, colon, and apostrophes decided they were tired of being erased, replaced, corrected, ignored, and moved around and something just had to be done. The punctuation decided they are going to take a vacaction while Mr. Wright's class was out on the playground. . and they did! Mr. Wright's class started to read a book and realized there was no punctuation. The next couple of days the class recieved post cards in the mail from the punctuation marks and the kids decided to write back. The students couldn't figure out a way to write without using puncuation so they decided to borrow some from a nearby class where 'punctuation seemed to be running wild!' Whether or not the punctuation marks decided to return is a mystery . . until you read the story yourself! I thought this book would be very useful in a writing class. It gives a few paragraphs of using no punctuation and also using puncuation wrong. Even as an adult I found it hard to read without punctuation so it will definately show the students how important punctuation is. Also, when the punctuation marks write post cards they don't sign their names but it is a fun guessing game to see which punctuation wrote which post card. VERY EDUCATIONAL and FUN book to read.