Do you know what "Ellipsis" means?

[Immaculateconception]

My youngest son came home with a comprehension sheet for a book he's reading. I will add that he is also the youngest child in YR2 with a birthday date of the 31st August. I even had to go and look it up in the dictonary!

Yes, but only because I did an English degree and recently did English A lev - if I was coming at it without that, or if I'd done them ages ago I think I may have forgotten lol lol

Yes I do...

It's how one says 'He lisps' if one has one of those terribly sibilant irritating voicessss.

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I do ...

Me too...

yes ... I should do ... I use them all the bloody time .. but tend to drop one of them which is slightly oo, slightly aah I feel ... I is a rebel

Ooh Twig...you're so random

I know

(admits to being sorenloronson on other thread )

No idea tbh. I'm guessing that it's to do with the 3 dots though!

oh dropping one is just .. what's the word .. necessary sometimes

But would you expect a 6 year old to know what it means?

I knew it was you, Twig.

Immaculateconception, instead of sympathising we are just all showing off that we know what it means (but none of us are at primary school - I hope). I asked ds1 and he did know (but he is a great big Year 6er).

No, not unless they'd done it in class recently

Nope, just asked ds2 (6) and he doesn't know - even though ds1 and I just had a conversation about it

No I wouldn't expect a Yr 2 child to know the word - but I would expect them to ask what it means and then look in the dictionary together. (my dd is in Yr 2)

Not sure what your ds' age has go to do with it though.

He is reading at the age of an 11 year old now so I presume somebody has taken him through the words on the sheet so then he knows what they mean. He's the only one within his class that has a one to one helper for his reading as he's that far on from the others.

Mercy, it was more the case that I have 3 other kids and neither one of them know what it meant either and they are all older than him. I was just wondering if it was a word for a YR2 child to know or whether it is because of his reading age they have given him this reading book and comprehension sheet. The teacher says that she will only discuss his progress with me at the next parent/teacher meeting in March.

Just asked DS who is 7 & in Yr2 - he didn't know the word but knew the dots and what they were for. Apparantly his teacher calls them "Dun - Dun - Durrrrrr" which says it quite nicely!

You will be surprised at the type of terminology they teach as standard now ... it is good though ... why hide things in simple language when young minds grasp the meanings so quickly ... language is a powerful tool

tough for us, the parents, though

Sorry, I thought you meant something slightly different.

Good for your ds! My dd probably couldn't even say the word properly tbh (and I know she is fairly bright)

er yes
so does my yr 1 ds1

DS2 (exactly same age as your DS, born on same day), knows what an ellipsis is and tells me when he's adding them in his writing.

A couple of weeks ago he said, "Unlike Magic Key books, Harry Potter ends in an ellipsis." Which was an odd thing to say, I admit. He pointed out that there were no brackets, colons or semi-colons in Biff and Chip either (haven't checked if he's right!)

And at having one-to-one help for being good at reading.