Monday, April 24, 2006
"What's the 'E' eating?"
This story is a couple months old, but still a favorite of ours:
At bedtime one night, I was reading "Go, Dog. Go!" to Jordi. It's a beginner reading book, and uses very simple words with lots of appropriate punctuation. Anyway, as I was reading one of the lines, Jordi interrupted me:
"Mommy, what's the 'e' eating?"
What is she talking about? "What's the 'e' eating?" I repeated.
"Yes, Mommy," she said, pointing to a comma following a word ending in 'e', "What's the 'e' eating?"
Aha! How observant! "Well, Jordi, that's called a comma, and the 'e' is not eating it. It's called punctuation, and..."
And then we proceeded to have a nice conversation about commas, periods, question marks & exclamation points! (However, explaining punctuation is not as easy as you may think.)
At bedtime one night, I was reading "Go, Dog. Go!" to Jordi. It's a beginner reading book, and uses very simple words with lots of appropriate punctuation. Anyway, as I was reading one of the lines, Jordi interrupted me:
"Mommy, what's the 'e' eating?"
What is she talking about? "What's the 'e' eating?" I repeated.
"Yes, Mommy," she said, pointing to a comma following a word ending in 'e', "What's the 'e' eating?"
Aha! How observant! "Well, Jordi, that's called a comma, and the 'e' is not eating it. It's called punctuation, and..."
And then we proceeded to have a nice conversation about commas, periods, question marks & exclamation points! (However, explaining punctuation is not as easy as you may think.)
// posted by The Pullems @ 1:54 PM 
