National Punctuation Day (September 24)

September 24 is National Punctuation Day! The founder's website describes the day as "A celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis." How will you recognize this day with your students?

Songs

• The Punctuation Song (CoolRules.com)
• The Punctuation People Theme Song (Dave Jay Gerstein)
• Exclaim! (Grammaropolis)
• Quote Me (Grammaropolis)
• Colon: The great organizer (Grammaropolis)
• Full stop (Grammaropolis)
• Punctuation (Grammaropolis)
• Question mark (Grammaropolis)
• End marks (Grammaropolis)

Images and Infographics
Have your students make their own punctuation infographics. Use these for inspiration:

• Visually Punctuation Mark Gallery
• Punctuation Chart
• 10 Hyphenation Tips
• 69 Rules of Punctuation

Games

• Semicolon Wars  (Mrs. Nussbaum)
• Extreme Sentence Surgeons (Mrs. Nussbaum)
• Punctuate the Sentences (BBC)
• Punctuation Paintball (Discovery Education)
• The Magic Key (BBC)

Tools
Test online grammar tools to see how how they work on finding and correction punctuation errors:

• Grammerly (Chrome and website)
• Ginger (Chrome and website)
• Punctuation Checker (website)
• Gregory's Writing Site (website)

Books
Greenwich School teachers are invited to stop by the Media Center and select from GES's favorite punctuation books.