Parentheses and Brackets Song from Grammaropolis - "(Parentheses) & [Brackets]"
From Grammaropolis
![Parentheses and Brackets Song from Grammaropolis - "(Parentheses) & [Brackets]"](https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AIdro_ktzANxkwR1UQb2qjvs0H5ubDS00D9XAg9ey2oylmOwHQ=s800-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj)
2 min5th6thReading & Writing (ELA)
Summary
An animated Grammaropolis music video about using parentheses and brackets to add extra information to a sentence. Short, catchy, and easy to drop into an ELA warm-up, mini-lesson, or review center.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of writing -- they tell a reader when to pause, stop, ask, or feel excitement.
- What job does this punctuation mark do in a sentence?
- Can you find or make an example sentence that uses it correctly?
- What would change about the sentence if the mark were missing or wrong?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: punctuation, sentence, mark, pause.
Try it: Write two sentences that use the punctuation mark from the song correctly.