As parents, we all know how frustrating it can be when our kids are not listening to us, when they have tuned out and our words have become nothing more than noise. Is there anything more aggravating than repeating ourselves a thousand times a day? Our children’s attention spans are more fragmented today than ever…
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Punctuation, along with its companion visual cues of capital letters and spacing, captures key aspects of language that go beyond words themselves (such as posing a question, emphasizing an idea, pausing, and so on). The tools for representing this information (periods, question marks, exclamation points, etc.) are generally not taught until the children are way…
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