Lesson Plan
Exclamation Mark!
This is a lesson to introduce the students to an end of the sentence punctuation: the exclamation mark. The emphasis will be correlated to a sentence type, in particular, the exclamatory sentence.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to determine if a sentence ending in an exclamation mark is exclamatory.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Bring the students, with their writing journals and a pencil, to the class meeting area.
- Tell them to place their supplies on the floor next to them.
- Tell the students that today they're going to learn about sentences that end with an exclamation mark(!), known as exclamatory sentences.
- Tell students that when the exclamation mark is used as an end of the sentence punctuation, the sentence involved is called an exclamatory sentence, meaning that strong emotion is expressed.