Elicit non-trivial dialogue from students. Guide students to reflection and analysis of the experience. Encourage students to share their perceptions and beliefs. Summarize and review similarities and differences.

Talk about what happened.

Objective: To help them understand why we need the written word.

Activity: Emphasize the purpose of writing things down. Questions for the children: If we could be everywhere at once and see all the things that are happening in the world, would we need to read about things? If we could meet everyone in the world and talk to them and listen to what they have to say, would we need to read? Emphasis: We only write things down so people can have a part of us when we are not there. Writing things down is a way of experiencing and remembering things people say about all kinds of things: about Sally Pig and Kevin Frog, about animals, about the stars and the mountains and the oceans, about the weather, about machines and about people. When we talk, we have to pause so people can understand where one idea ends and another idea begins. That way people can understand what we mean. Punctuation marks are only pauses in speech. They are places where we stop when we are reading so we can understand the end of one sentence and the beginning of another. Divide the children into groups of five. Give each group a written passage of four to five sentences without punctuation. Be sure the passage needs a comma, an exclamation mark, and a question mark, we well as periods. Instruct the children that: One of them must be the reader, one the period, one the comma, one the question mark, and one the exclamation mark. Have them rotate in turn so that each child gets to play all five parts.

Assessment: Quality of the experience for the children.