1. Words are Powerful Theresa Phelps Brevard County Writing Resource, K-6

2. Punctuation is Powerful A woman without her man is nothing.

3. The men edited this sentence to read… A woman, without her man, is nothing.

4. The women edited this sentence to read… A woman: without her, man is nothing.

6. Words are Powerful! http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Hzgzim5m7oU&vq=medium

7. Response to the Power of Words and Punctuation Increased use of mentor texts (examples of quality literature)  Sentence Imitation versus “Correct-alls”  Literary techniques that describe and elaborate Increased attention to convention use  New message… not just a bunch of rules, but a way to clearly communicate  modeling  editing

8. “Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne