Curio Class
On the bench · not built yet
Pause and Break
A reading voice pauses exactly where the punctuation tells it to; students add or move commas, parentheses, dashes and ellipses until the sentence sounds the way the writer meant, including quotations with words left out.
- Play style
- Puzzle
- Module
- Commas, Dashes and Ellipses: Punctuate extra information, coordinate adjectives, pauses and omissions; spell correctly
- Grade
- Grades 6-8 · English Language Arts
- Standards
L.6.2L.7.2L.8.2
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