Question marks ? Kindly contributed to the Adult Basic Skills Resource Centre http://www.skillsworkshop.org/ by Jennifer Baines, Park Lane College, Leeds. j.baines@parklanecoll.ac.uk October 2007. Adult literacy curriculum links: Rs/E2.4 Use Punctuation and capitalisation to aid understanding. (a) understand that different punctuation marks are used for different purposes and know their names: full stop, question and exclamation marks for end of sentence. (b) understand that this punctuation serves to help the reader make sense of written text, and apply this understanding in their own reading. (c) understand that all end-of-sentence markers are followed by an initial capital in continuous text written in complete sentences. Ws/E2.3 Use punctuation correctly (e.g. full stops, capital letters and question marks). (a) understand that capital letters and end-of-sentence punctuation cannot be used arbitrarily, but must mark the grammatical boundaries of a complete sentence. (b) understand that that punctuation is best thought about at the stage of composition and included as the sentences are put down, rather than added form scratch at the end. (c) understand that questions are sentences that have a different word order from straightforward statements. (d) understand that question marks signal to the reader that the sentence is asking a question.

Task 1: read the text below & answer the question What was the weather like in Spain? ? What am I being used for?

Task 2: read the text below & answer the question How are you feeling ? Where should I be?

Task 3: read the text below & answer the question Did you take your son out at the weekend ? Where should I be?

Task 4: read the text below & put in the missing question marks & capitals. Is the Leeds Valentine’s Fair still as good as it used to be when was the last time you went to it ? Where should I be?

Task 5: what question words can you think of?

Task 6: write a question of your own starting with one of these question words: what when where why how who do is