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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Book that illustrates the meaning of apostrophes!

I just found this book and I LOVE it!  It's called "The Girl's Like Spaghetti" and it's a really fun and effective way to show kids the meaning of apostrophes!  For example, the illustration for the sentence "Look, it's behind."  shows a girl pointing to the turtle at the back of the race and it is contrasted with an illustration of a boy pointing to the back of a horse with the sentence, "Look, its behind."  How fun is that?   In this case, a picture is definitely worth a thousand words!

With all the /s/ or /z/ sounds in the book that have morphological meaning, this would also be a great book for practicing articulation and expressive language skills!