6/29/2023 0 Comments Eats shoots and leaves review![]() Try making your own silly sentence by changing the punctuation! It’s harder than it looks and is a great way to engage your older children. Reading books, copy work, editing manuscripts, and these books are all we do! I have never taught a punctuation lesson with worksheets, a workbook, or lecture. I keep them on the bookshelf in our school room/family room and every so often they catch my child’s eye, and the books get reread, shared, and laughed at together. ![]() We gather together and read them aloud when we first buy them, like opening a treasure chest. There are four books, and we own three of them. It’s such a funny twist - just by moving or placing a comma in a different spot in the sentence. Thus the picture on the opposite page is different as well. One page shows a picture of a sentence, then the opposite page shows the same sentence with commas, periods, and more in different places - which completely changes the meaning of the sentence. My kids love the comic strip illustration style, with one window of illustration per page. This book shares her passion for the preservation of punctuation. The first book was inspired by the author’s original non-fiction, 240 page book called Eats, Shoots & Leaves: A No Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. This is a series of picture books, starting with Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference. ![]() ![]() ![]() About the Author: She is a former editor, television critic and sports journalist for The Times newspaper, and has written 8 novels, 6 non-fiction books, this series of children’s books, and more! ![]()
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