Punctuation Celebration

Author:  Elsa Knight Bruno, 2009, Scholastic
Illustrator:  Jenny Whitehead

Punctuation Celebration is a good literature source to use when teaching students about grammar.  In today's "text lingo," people often neglect punctuation, and that spills over into formal and professional writing.  This book takes each punctuation mark and uses it in a rhyme.  There are colorful illustrations that correspond with the rhymes, and the final page of the book puts everything together.  When I was young, I loved School House Rock, and I can still remember some of the chants, songs, and rhymes.  That, along with literature such as this book, gives children a way of remembering some of the nuances of the difficult English language.  Overall, I thought this book did a fantastic job of using writing to teach proper punctuation.