John Lewis Childs School fourth graders in Mrs. Zilinek and Ms. Phannemiller’s class have been using the Pear Deck app during their grammar lessons. The app is an engaging, interactive way for the students to practice their work while teachers can formatively assess their progress.

During the lesson on Dec. 13, students used Pear Deck to practice proper use of quotation marks and punctation when writing quotations from text. With the app, they were tasked with identifying the correct use of punctation from a few sample sentences and also had to add proper punctation to sentences written without any punctation.