Description:Words and pictures show children what a dangling participle is all about. Young readers are shown an incorrect sentence that has in it a dangling participle. They are then taught how to make the sentence read correctly. It is done in a cute and humorous way. The dangling participle loses its way and the children learns how to help it find its way back to the correct spot in the sentence. This is followed by some comical examples of sentences with dangling participles and their funny illustrations, followed by an illustration of the corrected sentence. Young readers will have fun recognizing this problem in sentence construction and learning how to fix it.
My Review:
I wish all of the grammar rules were taught in such an appealing manner! Seriously, where was this book when I was in school? Oelschlager does an excellent job of explaining not only what a participle is, (an adjective ending in -ing and occasionally -ed) but she explains what it means to "dangle" those participles as well. And just to be sure that the reader understands why this is important, she includes several humorous illustrations such as this:
My 5 year old enjoyed the story, my 14 year old "got" the story. For the first time she really understood the concept of a dangling participle. That makes this book a success in my opinion!
I plan to add some of her other books to my Language Arts library such as:
Life is a Bowl Full of Cherries
Out of the Blue: A book of color idioms and silly pictures
Eye to Eye: A Book of Body Part Idioms and Silly Pictures
all of which discuss idioms.
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