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sound effects punctuation
By Meaghan

Working with 5ht grade students, I taught them to tap their fingers two times after a period and one time after a comma so their have better timing.

I've heard about sound effect punctuation and am eager to try it. This
is how it goes.
Everytime you get to a period you do a specific sound (same sound every time, ex. smack your lips.)
A comma might be "hmmm" (to denote a pause)
A question mark could be "huh?"
An exclamation mark could be "woah!"
Quotation marks could be a double click with the hand movement.
Alternately, you can do walking punctuation where every time you get to:
a period.

You stop.
a comma, You pause
a question mark You shrug
an exclamation mark You throw your hands up in the air.