Comma Quest: The Rules They Followed. The Sentences they Saved

Lesley Roessing

ISBN 10: 1931492301 / ISBN 13: 9781931492300

Published by Discover Writing Press, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Comma Quest: The Rules They Followed. The Sentences they Saved
• Publisher: Discover Writing Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1931492301
• ISBN 13: 9781931492300
• Binding: paperback
• Illustrator: Miles Bodimeade
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

They followed their Momma's wishes. They followed their own dreams. But more importantly, they followed the Rules!

Meet the Comma kids who leave their home sentence to go out into the world and find sentences of their own.

Along the way they experience love, heartache, adventure, and doubt, but they persevere in their quest to save sentences.

Read this zany story, learn Momma Comma's punctuation songs, and before you know it, you will have mastered 6 comma rules--plus a whole lot of grammar.

Correction: Songs from the book are available at
soundcloud dot com backward slash commamomma
You can also get there from the QR code on the book.

About the Author

Lesley Roessing, a/k/a Comma Momma, taught secondary and middle-level English-Language Arts for 22 years in suburban Philadelphia. She now teaches in the College of Education of Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia, where she also serves as Director of Coastal Savannah Writing Project and works with educators in Georgia and South Carolina coastal districts. Lesley is the author of The Write to Read: Response Journals That Increase Comprehension (Corwin Press, 2009) and No More Us and Them : Classroom Lessons & Activities to Promote Peer Respect (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012). She traces her fondness for commas to a childhood filled with Sentence Diagramming and Extreme Editing Competitions. These commas songs were written for her eighth-grade students at Ridley Middle School.

Miles Bodimeade is a scriptwriter/illustrator/sculptor whose work includes a 2.5 ton bronze sculpture for Gun Wharf, in Portsmouth England and many scripts for the BBC TV series, Doctors.