Eats Shoots and Leaves.

After reading a charming little book that I had never seen in my life, it was apparent that there are so many different approaches you can take to teaching kids something as simple as punctuation. This book took a light hearted and humorous approach, as well as adding in illustrations that made the different changes in punctuation among the sentences more apparent. I also liked that when reading these different sentences, changing the emotion or inflection in your voice was a must to get the point across when there was no picture visible. It made me really accentuate what I was saying and add more expression to my reading. After doing an activity with my field experience students where they were to read different passages to me with an assigned emotion, I really think a book like this would also help to get students to change their voice patterns when reading...while also paying attention to punctuation. It's a win win.