The Winchester Mystery House story begins with the birth of Sarah Pardee who was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1839. She was a petite and popular beauty in the town she grew up in. She was musically gifted, and knew how to charm
all the men in New Haven.
Also, in the town of New Haven, a young man named William Wirt Winchester was born to Oliver Winchester, who was a
prominent businessman of the time. Oliver took over a company that had developed a rifle that loaded the bullets using a
lever. It was called the Volcanic Repeater.
Read the passage above and discuss how you used punctuation when reading to help with your reading fluency.