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Children's writing: question and afterthought - by Anniyah

22.11.22


Thanks for sharing your fabulous writing, Anniyah. It has a lovely light hearted and chatty feel, which helps to set the mood from the outset.

Our skill focus was to write a rhetorical question with an afterthought. We looked at this because it's one of those funny punctuation rules that trips children up in their writing, such as we don't need speech marks for a thought. Also, it looks funny/ incorrect because there is a question mark in the middle of the sentence! However, it is correct.


You have being experimenting with this new sentence structure. For example:
If my brother doesn't stop, then what will Sparks do? I thought to myself.

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