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ACTION PUNCTUATION CREATIVE GROUP COOPERATION ABL FOUNDATION PROBLEM SOLVING TYPE OF MOVEMENT Reinforced Academics Cooperative Peer Teaching OBJECTIVE Sometimes the best learning is by acting out the learning Students practice punctuation by creating actions and sounds that anchor their knowledge of basic punctuation ACADEMIC CONCEPT Punctuation creativity cooperation EQUIPMENT ABL Punctuation Card Set model PRC 916 A book of poems rhymes like Dr Seuss Green Eggs and Ham ORGANIZATION Divide the students into 6 equal groups spread out throughout the classroom Give each group a card with a punctuation mark on it INTRODUCTION If you re writing a story and you want the reader to know to stop at the end of a sentence what punctuation mark would you use Do you ever get confused about which punctuation mark to use Wouldn t it be funny if punctuation marks could show you and tell you which one to use when Your mission is for your group to make up an action and a sound to show us what your punctuation mark is We will read a funny story When we come to your punctuation mark you will act it out and sound it out for the rest of us Try to use big motions and appropriate sounds Be sure everyone in your group is involved ACTIVITY Give the groups time to create and practice Read the story and say the punctuation mark to help them know it is their turn Try to find a passage that uses each mark several times Some examples of actions and sounds may be Capital letter jump up and say Go Period Hold your hand up in front of you and say Whoa Comma Hands on hips and circle hips around and say Slow down Question Mark Shrug shoulders with hands up in air and say Huh Action Based Learning 315 Industrial Road Summerville SC 29483 PH 843 879 2201 WWW ABLLAB COM INPUT IDEA HERE

Exclamation Mark Grab the air with the right fist bring down forcefully and say Yes Quotation Marks Make quotation marks in the air with fingers say Ching Ching Apostrophe Use the elbow to make an apostrophe in the air and say Not CELEBRATE Use Action Punctuation to act out the sentence Name of Teacher says Learning at name of school is awesome PROCESS You did a great job of acting out and sounding out punctuation Point to the comma group Show me what they did Repeat for each punctuation mark APPLICATION CLASSROOM RELEVANCY Creativity is a higher order thinking skill that promotes better learning The young brain remembers better in pictures than it does in symbols letters and numbers BRAIN LINK Visualization helps the brain to understand the concept Embodied cognition using gestures actions and motion increases retention and retrieval because memory is stored in several areas of the brain BRAIN REGION Frontal lobe Cerebellum HAVING A BALL WITH PUNCTUATION BALL HANDLING SKILLS ABL FOUNDATION EYE HAND COORDINATION PROBLEM SOLVING TYPE OF MOVEMENT Reinforce Academics OBJECTIVE Action Based Learning 315 Industrial Road Summerville SC 29483 PH 843 879 2201 WWW ABLLAB COM

Students review and apply punctuation rules kinesthetically ACADEMIC CONCEPT Punctuation EQUIPMENT A ball that bounces for each student ORGANIZATION Students scatter in self space with enough room to bounce a ball INTRODUCTION Ball handling skills cross the midline and help your body brain organize for learning As I read this story see if you can act out the punctuation marks by using a ball to punctuate the Sentences ACTIVITY Each child has a bouncy ball Read a story with punctuation marks When a punctuation mark appears in the sentence the students act out the action for the mark _ Bounce ball to ground Toss the ball high and catch it Arch the ball overhead from one hand to the next Roll ball around waist EXTENSION Punctuate sentences that the students create CELEBRATE Turn to your neighbor and say Learning is a ball PROCESS Using your ball punctuate this sentence The principal insert the name said The students at name of school are great at punctuation By using your whole brain you can remember the rules of punctuation more easily APPLICATION CLASSROOM RELEVANCY Embodied cognition using gestures actions and motion increases retention and retrieval because memory is stored in several areas of the brain Action Based Learning 315 Industrial Road Summerville SC 29483 PH 843 879 2201 WWW ABLLAB COM

BRAIN LINK The brain searches for meaning Cross lateral skills organize the brain for learning Action Based Learning 315 Industrial Road Summerville SC 29483 PH 843 879 2201 WWW ABLLAB COM