Remove all the punctuation from a piece of text and save your unpunctuated version. As with the previous activity, the children's degree of familiarity with the text will present different opportunities for learning. Get a group of children to re-punctuate it, then ask them to check their efforts with the original book.

Full Phase (Acorn) and Pages (Acorn/Windows PC)

Pendown (Acorn/PC)

Microsoft Word (PC)

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