Words and pictures show children what a dangling Participle is all about.
Mother of two daughters, stepmother to a son and daughter, she is grandmother to seven..
Prior to her publishing and writing career, Vanita taught school for 19 years and then helped her husband with his company, Oak Associates.
In May 2011, Vanita received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from University of Mount Union.
She was honored as 2009 Woman Philanthropist of the Year by the Summit County United Way.
She won the Congressional \'Angels in Adoption\' Award for the state of Ohio in 2007 and was named National Volunteer of the Year by the MS society in 2008.
She and her husband Jim received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in 2006.
Vanita is also Writer in Residence for the Literacy Program at The University of Akron.
Union College in Alliance, Ohio, where she currently serves as a Trustee.
She is a graduate of Mt.
About author(s): Vanita Oelschlager is a wife, mother, grandmother, philanthropist, former teacher, current caregiver, author and poet.
Young readers will have fun recognizing this problem in sentence construction and learning how to fix it.
This is followed by some comical examples of sentences with dangling participles and their funny illustrations, followed by an illustration of the corrected sentence.
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.
It is done in a cute and humorous way.
They are then taught how to make the sentence read correctly.
Young readers are shown an incorrect sentence that has in it a dangling participle.
Words and pictures show children what a dangling Participle is all about
