The Eats, Shoots & Leaves punctuation game is based on the popular book of the same name written by Lynne Truss. The game presents a series of sample sentences to which users have to decide whether or not punctuation is need and if so where to add it. The game starts with a section about using the apostrophe.
Applications for Education
The Eats, Shoots & Leaves punctuation provides instant feedback to students as they practice the use of punctuation. If using the game online is not an option for your students, the game is still a valuable source of sample problems that you can use with your students in the classroom.
Update!
The link to this game now appears to be dead.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Eats, Shoots & Leaves Punctuation Game
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Great idea for a game, but the placement of the apostrophe is so sensitive that I wasn't ever able to place it in the correct spot. No matter where I put the apostrophe (and I do know where it belonged!), the apostrophe shifted to the end of the sentence. Hugely frustrating, and I quit trying.
The link appears to be dead.
Hi--just wanted to let you know that this link is no longer in existence. Looks like she changed it to a comma quiz.
mlpomerantz--can you tell me what link you followed to get the comma quiz?
http://www.savethecomma.com/game/ is the link for the comma game
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