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Kindergarten Copywork: Read the Mark

Children read models with a period, question mark, or exclamation point, then preserve the ending mark as they copy.

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Kindergarten Copywork: Read the Mark

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Today I am practising: copying a sentence while connecting punctuation to spoken expression

1

Read: Can we dig? Let your voice ask.

2

Copy Can we dig? Keep the question mark.

3

Read: We did it! Let your voice show excitement.

4

Copy We did it! Keep the exclamation point.

5

Copy: The sun is up. Keep the period.

6

Point to each ending mark and tell an adult how to read it.

Grown-up guide
  1. Model the three sentence voices without asking for loud performance.
  2. Point to the mark before and after copying so it is treated as part of the sentence.
  3. Use only these three familiar marks; do not add punctuation terminology beyond what helps.

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