Punctuation

Copying this over from the TES Primary forum:


 * __Kung Fu Punctuation__**

• Full stop: throw a short, right-handed punch at the air in front of you. Make the noise, Ha!

• Comma: with your right arm bent so that your hand is in front of your face, make a short twisting motion at the wrist to signify the comma shape. Make the noise, Shi!

• Semi-colon:do the full-stop punch, then the comma shape directly underneath it. Make the noises, Ha! Shi!

• Colon: follow the full-stop punch immediately with one directly beneath it. Make the noises, Ha! Ha!

• Question mark: separate the curly bit into three cutting movements with the hand: one horizontal left to right, one curved around, and one vertical coming from the bottom of the curved one. Then at the bottom of the shape you have just drawn in the air, bung in a full-stop punch. Make the noises, Shi! Shi! Shi! Ha!

• Exclamation mark: a long vertical slash, from top to bottom, followed by a full stop. Make the noises, Shiiiiii! Ha!

• Speech marks: stand on one leg, extend your arms diagonally to the skies and wiggle your index and middle fingers in an approximation of speech marks. Make the noise, Haeeeee!

• Apostrophe: with your right arm fully extended to the air, wiggle your index finger. Make the noise, Blubalubaluba! (This is the best I can do to approximate the sound you can make with your tongue when you flap it up and down against the inside of your lips.)

• Ellipsis: three punches along a horizontal line. Make the noises, Ha! Ha! Ha!

• Brackets: using your left hand first, draw a curved convex line in the air; use your right hand to do the opposite motion for the closing bracket. Make the noises, Shi! Shi!

Have found this link which has mention of a Kung Fu Punctuation game: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/07/25/nosplit/ftpunc125.xml If anyone has any examples of how they've made this work in their class please post them below. **~squiggle7

Just had this idea after seeing a resource on Sparklebox2: Punctuation bingo**

Get the children to draw up grids on whiteboards (whatever size you want depending on what your children/you can cope with) and put in punctuation marks. It might be wise to have a few pre-made ones for LA. Then on the interactive whiteboard/slips of paper you pull out of a bag have some sentences with one piece of punctuation missing; difficulty can be decided depending on the ability of your class. Children then cross off the piece of punctuation missing until they have got them all. So, for example:

Don't do that! Donna said - cross off speech marks My dress isnt purple - cross of apostrophe

etc... **~squiggle7**