Parenthesis: red flying fox
Whiteboard Challenges
Challenge 1
The first sentence is missing punctuation marks to separate the parenthesis from the main sentence. Decide where they should go and prove to your partner how you know this.
Challenge 2
Rewrite the second sentence, adding a parenthesis into the gap. Will you use commas, dashes or brackets? Does it make a difference which of these punctuation marks you use?
Challenge 3
Using some of the words from the Word Wall, write your own scintillating sentence about the bats featured in the film clip. Your sentence must contain a parenthesis.
Whiteboard Challenges
1) The little red flying fox faces a number of threats in the wild farmers, habitat loss and food scarcity but is not considered an endangered species.
2) The ingenious SpyBat ___________ filmed the maternity roost.