Punctuation Takes a Vacation | Robin Pulver | What Happens When Punctuation Takes a Vacation?

Punctuation Takes a Vacation | Robin Pulver | A Story With All The Right Marks!

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	Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver Holiday House, 2004 - 28 pages average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Commas, periods, excalmation points, question marks, colons, apostrophes, quotation marks: take your places. 10:00 A.M. Time to study us. Learn how punctuation marks work together to make reading and writing flow smoothly.

What Happens When Punctuation Takes a Vacation?

Mr. Wright gets tired of using punctuation and teaching it and thinks it good for them to take a vacation. They go and soon they are sending postcards back to the class telling of the great vacation they are having. The kids find it impossible to write so they are unable to finish their classwork, what to do? Guess they need to ask them to come back. They do and everyone understands that punctuation can't take a vacation.

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A Story With All The Right Marks!

This was a great book. It really shows how important punctuation is when writing. Punctuation takes a break from its work in a classroom and soon the students find that their world is a little more crazy without the marks to make it mind. The story line was well thought out and the list at the end of the book is a great teaching tool. The illustrations are wonderful. I also enjoyed the personality traits given to the individual marks of punctuation.

Cute book!!!

My class of 3rd graders thoroughly enjoyed this book. It fit right in with the teaching of the writing trait "conventions."

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cute

Good book to emphasize that punctuation is important. It didn't easily lend itself to punctuation activities for the classroom, which is what I was hoping for...

Clever but Punctuated with Racial Stereotypes

I must come to the aid of poor Sheila who has been unfairly attacked for having an unpopular opinion (and for her spelling--now, that's just rude!).

I bought this book based on the many positive reviews and actually assumed that the perceived racism was probably blown out of proportion. But, as a middle school teacher, when I got to the page where Mr. Rongo appeared, I was a bit taken aback. Yes, Mr. Rongo is African-American while Mr. Wright is Caucasion, and yes he is called Mr. RONGo. That is probably bad enough, but his outfit is also somewhat clownish, and the poor guy really seems to have no control over his class (or at least over his punctuation). I'm white, and it bothered me. I actually checked the copyright date and thought there was some mistake!

No, the color of the two teachers' skin is not the focus of this book. But, if I read it to my sixth-graders, I would feel compelled to discuss this issue with them. I certainly don't want to propagate a stereotype, especially in a school system that is already quite "diversity challenged."

That said, I enjoyed the book, especially the postcards from the punctuation marks. It could be fun to have the kids figure out which ones sent which postcards. Of course, we would have to take time out to give colons some respect. Timekeepers? Honestly! If I were a colon, I'd be insulted.

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