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How to Use a Period

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How to Use a Period
1 min1st2ndReading & Writing (ELA)
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Summary

The StoryBots explore the period that ends a telling sentence. A bright, catchy short that drops easily into a lesson, a center, or a brain-friendly review.

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Discussion

Punctuation marks are the signals that tell a reader when to stop, pause, ask, or show excitement.

  1. What punctuation mark does this video explain?
  2. What does it tell the reader to do?
  3. Can you say a sentence that would end with it?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: punctuation, sentence, period, comma, question mark.

Try it: Write one sentence that uses the punctuation mark from the video correctly.

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