One of my earliest memories of literacy is from kindergarten. \u00a0In the morning every day, we had to write a sentence describing a picture that we were given. \u00a0One day after school, I asked my mom about commas in a book she was reading to me, and she explained that they indicated a pause in a sentence. \u00a0From that point on, I thought commas were really exciting and proceeded to use them in all of my morning sentences. \u00a0Later, I learned what apostrophes were and they were equally exciting! \u00a0I eventually found out that you can’t just use apostrophes and commas whenever you want, and that was pretty disappointing. \u00a0Even today, I have a tendency to overuse commas and I think it stems from that initial excitement I had about them back in kindergarten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of my earliest memories of literacy is from kindergarten. \u00a0In the morning every day, we had to write a sentence describing a picture that we were given. \u00a0One day after school, I asked my mom about commas in a book she was reading to me, and she explained that they indicated a pause in … Continue reading “Literacy Memory”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}