Scott-
I have to say, this is not something I have noticed. But, after reading
your examples aloud, I had an "a-ha" moment, and will see if incorporating
this into my "talking to students too kit" helps!
Thanks for noticing and pointing this out. Sometimes I really do miss the
most obvious things.
-patty
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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
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Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 6:25 PM
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Subject: Teaching students how to read poetry
Listmates,
In the process of teaching my 7th graders how to read poetry out loud, I
noticed that, for many of them, they paused at the end of each line,
regardless of its punctuation, and lowered the tone of the last word as
though it were followed by a period. I found this problem diminished when
I worked with my students to distinguish the sound of a word followed by a
period from that word followed by a comma, semicolon, or colon. For
instance, "The boy went to the store. He bought a loaf of bread. Then he
went home." is pronounced differently from "The boy went to the store; he
bought a loaf of bread; then he went home." Or in "Buy several items at the
store." store is pronounced differently from store in "Buy several items at
the store: bread, soap, and milk."
Does anyone know of any research relating to this phenomenon and its
relationship to instruction? Have others noticed this?
Scott Woods
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