Exclamation Mark!

The librarian at my school shared this playful new book with me this week, Exclamation Mark by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld. She knows the kinds of books I like, that "lend themselves to movement."

The characters in the story are punctuation – periods, exclamation marks, and question marks.

It will be fun to embody and explore how each punctuation is different in quality, purpose, and size. Try this book out in 3rd-5th grade classes. Play with being the narrator for your class, or recording the text. For students ready to explore qualities of movement and size of movement, check out Exclamation Mark.