Teachers can use punctuation games, such as board games, online games, Red Light Green Light, team games, and guessing games, to help students learn about punctuation marks and their functions in a fun and creative way. These games can also be used to quiz students on their knowledge of punctuation and sentence structure.
Teachers can use different types of punctuation games to help students learn the names and functions of all punctuation marks. Using board games involving letters can help students learn correct grammar and sentence structure in a creative way that takes them away from their usual seats and workbooks. Online punctuation games are also used as teaching tools and can give students who finish their normal work something to do while waiting for the next activity.
Teachers with anxious students may want to get them to stand up and move around while playing Red Light, Green Light with a punctuation theme. During this game, all students will start in a horizontal line with the teacher standing several feet or yards apart. Students are asked to move towards the teacher when a non-sentence-ending period is said, such as a quote, parenthesis, or comma, but students are expected to freeze if a period, exclamation point, or question mark is called out. Students who don’t crash as a result will be sent back to the starting point, and whoever reaches the teacher first wins the game.
Team punctuation games can quiz students on the basics of using punctuation. Students can choose which punctuation marks they wish to be tested on, and the points they earn will be based on the level of difficulty. Teachers can make challenges ranging from simply stating if a sentence uses a punctuation mark correctly to giving a student an improperly punctuated sentence and asking them to enter the correct grades. In advanced rounds, teachers can have the student create their own sentence using a specific grade correctly.
Teachers can also play Bingo-like punctuation games by having students fill in five-column grids with a different punctuation mark in each box. Although each student’s grid will be filled in differently, the top row of boxes will read “Bingo”. The teacher begins the game by reading the definition of a punctuation mark or by writing a sentence on the board that lacks a necessary punctuation mark. Students will mark the corresponding box on their cards until someone lines up a winning bingo with a complete horizontal or diagonal line of marked boxes.
Guessing punctuation games can get students off their seats and use their brains. Teachers will write different punctuation on multiple cards. These cards will be taped to the students’ backs without them seeing what their own cards say. Once the game begins, students begin asking each other yes or no questions about the sign on their backs, such as “Do I make the player pause?” Whoever discovers his punctuation mark first is the winner.
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