Punctuation

Today when Maya and I were working on her reading she was asking me about some of the punctuation marks, and what they mean. She is so funny when she sees an exclamation mark. She will read the sentence normally until the last word and then she will say the last word really loud and excited. Question marks kind of throw her a bit, she is working on them. Then she asked me what the little dots mean. I tried to explain the periods, finally saying that when she sees them she should take a little breath before moving on to the next word. She tried this for a little while and then said, "I don't really like those little dots. I'm not going to take a breath, I don't really like to take that many breaths anyway."