| PUNCTUATION | PERFORMANCE | WHY APPROPRIATE |
| question marks | jokes & riddles | their jokes/riddles were questions |
| exclamation points | cheerleaders | strong feeling or excitement |
| parentheses | Double Dutch jump rope | enclosed the ends of the rope/jumping |
| periods & hyphens | tap dance & SOS | dot and dash sound |
| We don’t know what the commas and quotation marks did in addition to helping the parentheses. What might the commas have done? | ||
| —example— | formed a line & marched into new groups formation | |
| because commas are used to separate | ||
| What might the quotation marks have done? | ||
| —example— | recited a poem or famous speech | |
| because quotation marks are used with what someone said | ||