1. Punctuation
Pay attention!!!

2. Period What does it make your voice do? STOP and take a breath
What is it used for?
To end a sentence/thought

3. Question mark What does it do to your voice?
It makes it go high pitch at the end
What does it do?
You should know 

4. Exclamation point What does it do to your voice?
It makes it go up in pitch and volume
What does it do?
It shows emotions

5. comma (This is what we humans usually struggle with…)
What does it do to our voice?
Pauses for a short breath
What do we use it for?
Dates
Lists
City, State
Letter writing
Connect two short sentences
BEFORE the word “but”

9. Quotation marks What does it make your voice do?
Take on the characters voice
What is it used for?
To show that a character/someone is talking
To cite evidence straight from a text
To show that those words are not yours/to give credit

10. Examples Miss E. exclaimed to her class, “Stop messing around!”
According to the LA Times, “80,000 residents evacuated the area due to the Thomas fire.”

11. Apostrophe What does it make your voice do? nothing
What is it used for?
To combine two words (aka: contractions)
To show possession

12. P.S. what are contractions?

13. examples Kelsey’s blanket was old and raggedy.
“It’s tiiime for Dodger baseball!”
They’re on the run from the police!
That was Zoey’s dog that just ran past us.
DO NOT use these with PLURAL nouns

14. colon What does it make your voice do?
Take a short pause (like a comma)
What is it used for?
Before a list or answer

15. Semicolon What does it make your voice do?
Take a short breath (like a comma)
What is it used for?
To organize/categorize lists/clauses
Two parts of a compound sentence when they are not connected by a conjunction

16. examples
I went to the beach yesterday; I saw exotic fish and dolphins.
There were hundreds of students on the first day of high school; many of them used to attend my middle school.