Punctuation

K-2
Punctuation Paintball Three levels of difficulty. In the easiest level students shoot paintballs at a sentence to add capitalization, periods, question marks, or exclamation points. The medium level adds commas, the difficult level adds quotation marks. Very colorful with great sound effects. Can be maximized to full screen with FGM.

Alien Punctuation There are three levels, each focusing on capitalized letters, and ending punctuation. You can turn the music off, but the sound effects can become redundant and annoying after awhile.

3-8
Don't Use Said This is a teacher led activity. There are four sentences that require punctuation for dialogue. In addition, there is a slide devoted to using alternative words for "said" that were used in the sentences. Creative teachers will print copies of the sentences for students to edit at their desks. This is a great springboard lesson in narrative writing.

Extreme Sentence Surgeons Here's the description of the game from Mr. Nussbaum: "Your paragraph surgery skills will be put to the test as critically injured paragraphs enter your emergency room. Their injuries are significant: poor spelling, no punctuation, wrong word usage, and much more. It will be gruesome. Use your superior skills to fix the bad spelling words, add commas, capital letters, periods, apostrophes, and change words used incorrectly." The first level has 16 errors to correct. The second level has 24.

Comma Chameleon Sentences without punctuation appear on the screen. Students click on a punctuation mark, and then click where in the sentence that punctuation mark belongs. A colorful, animated chameleon makes this game more interesting. There are multiple levels including sentence endings, dates and places, lists, and joining two statements.

Trapped! Very interesting illustrations, sound effects, and music in this game. Students must select the correct punctuation marks to complete several sentences in a paragraph. The second level involves the use of quotation marks in dialogue. The third level focuses on apostrophes. Very fun aural feedback.