Boop!
Kids should be in charge of naming things.
Today I was doing a proofreading drill with a group of early elementary kids.
The sentence needed an exclamation point at the end.
No one could see the error, so I read the sentence out loud dramatically to demonstrate the excitement of the passage.
“I know it, I know it!” they all shouted, but no one could remember the exact word for exclamation point.
They were all shouting and gesturing at once.
I knew they had figured it out, I was just giving them time to remember the word.
Then one kid shouted out, “It’s the swoop with the boop!”
She wasn’t wrong.
I would be remiss if I didn’t teach them the proper word for exclamation point.
But in my mind, that word has been forever changed to “the swoop with the boop.”
It’s so much more descriptive than ‘exclamation point.’
Boop!
Liz Brenner
Everyone has a story to tell.
Even you.
Especially you.
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