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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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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