Establish a classroom atmosphere that celebrates the sharing of learning. Have opportunity for students to practice new learnings. Make student learning available to the larger community, i.e. books students write are shared with other classes, students report in school paper, student work is displayed at school, etc.

Children try their worksheet (stories) on each other.

Objective: To share their stories with each other.

Activity: Assign each child a partner. Have then exchange stories. Each child inserts the proper punctuation. They correct each other's work. They them rewrite their own stories inserting proper punctuation and capitalization. Note: Inform the music teacher when you are doing this unit so s/he can capitalize on this to teach musical rests.

Assessment: Participation and accuracy.