This song is also available on Jack Hartmann's album Rockin' Reading.
When you read and when you write
You’ve got to pay attention, to punctuation
When you read a sentence and you see a comma,
What are you gonna do? Pause, then read on
When you read a sentence and you see a period
What are you gonna do? Stop, read on
When you read a sentence and you see an exclamation point
What are you gonna do? Use strong emotion
When you read a sentence and you see a question mark
What are you gonna do? Your voice goes up?
Bridge
Punctuation, helps you read helps you write
Punctuation, as you go left to right
Punctuation, it’s something that you need, so pay attention
When you write and read
When you read a sentence and you see a comma,
What are you gonna do? (children answer)
When you read a sentence and you see a period
What are you gonna do? (children answer)
When you read a sentence and you see an exclamation point
What are you gonna do? (children answer)
When you read a sentence and you see a question mark
What are you gonna do? (children answer)
(Repeat Bridge)
Pay attention to punctuation! Pay attention to punctuation!
Yeah!
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