Ella, a 9 year-old that I tutor on Thursdays, has been reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory aloud to me for months. We've worked on stresses, italics, punctuation, vocabulary, really anything that comes up during our reading.
Since Roald Dahl has a pretty wicked sense of humor, I sometimes have to explain rather adult jokes. In the most recent chapter, Charlie and the other kids see a storage room door with a sign announcing that it contains all sorts of beans, including has beans.
I laughed when Ella read that part, so I had to explain the idea of a has-been. I asked if she could think of anyone who was famous 20 years ago, but hasn't really done anything great since.
Her first thought?
Queen Elizabeth.
