Scratch Garden’s First Educational Book for Kids is Here!
About the Book
Scratch Garden is happy to announce that our first book is complete, and it is available now!
This book for kids’ learning is unique in all aspects. It is designed to make grammar, especially punctuation, really easy for young minds. Based on our popular Punctuation Explained video, the fully illustrated book follows four friends on their wacky adventures. Readers won’t even realize they are learning about punctuation on the way!
Not only will they learn about punctuation, they will be able to retain it. All of this is guaranteed to be super fun. Punctuation marks will no longer just be a boring lesson, they will come alive as new friends of the young reader.
This visually rich and engaging educational book will strike the right chords with the kids so that they learn English while playing, laughing, and enjoying themselves.
Published by Innovation Press, Semicolons, Cupcakes, and Cucumbers is available wherever books are sold!
Click on a bookstore below to find the book online!
Resources & Printables!
Here you will find a list of printable educational resources specific to our book. Keep checking back with us frequently though, as we will keep adding new resources for our curious young readers. These resources will help kids enhance their learning experience even further.
 This simple no-prep mini-unit is perfect for introducing punctuation to your students! Included: Punctuation Posters 2 Punctuation Worksheets 4 Flap Books If you enjoy and use this freebie, please take the time to leave feedback! (K, 1, 2)Click here to download the free resource. |
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 Semicolons, Cupcakes, and Cucumbers is an adorable book about punctuation. After reading, use this FREEBIE to enhance learning about the characters and review punctuation. (K,1)Click here to download the free resource. |
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 Enjoy these punctuation anchor charts that review when to use periods, question marks, exclamation points, semicolons and commas. This resource also includes two free practice pages for periods, exclamation points and question marks. (K,1,2,3)Click here to download the free resource. |
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 Review punctuation with Semicolons, Cupcakes, and Cucumbers by Steve Newberry and this free task card activity. It includes 20 task cards and 2 recording sheets. (2,3)Click here to download the free resource. |
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 This is a fun set of posters to go along with Semicolons, Cupcakes, and Cucumbers! Print 4 to a page, cut out and staple for a Punctuation Book. (PreK,K,1,2,3,4,5,6)Click here to download the free resource. |
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 The activities in this resource help kids master the different types of punctuation while having fun through games, task cards, clip cards, and worksheets. (K,1,2)Click here to download the free resource. |
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 This freebie contains posters describing each punctuation mark and task cards for a class game, based on the conversations in the book. (1,2,3)Click here to download the free resource. |
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 Add some fun to your punctuation lessons with this free board game! After reading Semicolons, Cupcakes, and Cucumbers, students race around the track and write their own sentences using periods, question marks, and exclamation points. (K,1,2)Click here to download the free resource. |
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 Engage your students and have them practice using punctuation marks correctly with a sentence sort activity. Additional hands on activity included will have your students combining sentences with semicolons as experts in no time at all! (2,3,4)Click here to download the free resource. |
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 These freebie posters make a great companion to the text. Simply print and display! You could also print smaller versions for students to keep in their writing notebooks.Click here to download the free resource. |
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 Based on the familiar memory card game "Concentration," this literacy center activity provides buddy pairs valuable practice in the correct placement and use of punctuation.After matching punctuation marks - period, comma, question mark, exclamation point, and semicolon - with the sentences that need them to be complete, students will write the correct sentences on a recording sheet. I've provided an answer key. Also included are teacher instructions, player instructions, and a game folder label for easy organization. Click here to download the free resource. |
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 This product is a freebie created in conjunction with the Innovation Press for their book "Semicolons, Cupcakes and Cucumbers". This product includes popular word wall vocabulary cards along with full-size posters for the following language arts vocabulary words:* Comma * Exclamation Mark * Period * Semicolon * Sentence (K,1,2,3,4,5,6) Click here to download the free resource. |