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I agree with queentess, but even if the author is striving for realism, MY second-grader uses the correct grammar most of the time already, and I've heard more than one of his public-school classmates use correct grammar, too, so why feature the incorrect examples?
I understand if you are featuring non-standard language as significant point of character, a la Huck Finn, but why do it if your characters are 'every-kids' that the young reader is supposed to identify with?
Also, I want to make it clear that I'm just using this particular book as the example that got me to start this thread, I don't mean to single it out. For all I know, on the next page, the teacher corrects all the kid's grammar.
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