diff --git a/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-provider/README.md b/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-provider/README.md
index 2176b79a5b91d2..b21ffb8b0b9f4c 100644
--- a/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-provider/README.md
+++ b/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-provider/README.md
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ const MyNavigation = () => (
 
 **Important note**
 
-`Navigator` assumes that screens are organized hierarchically according to their `path`, which should follow a URL-like scheme where each path segment is separated by the `/` character.
+`Navigator` assumes that screens are organized hierarchically according to their `path`, which should follow a URL-like scheme where each path segment starts with and is separated by the `/` character.
 
 `Navigator` will treat "back" navigations as going to the parent screen — it is therefore responsibility of the consumer of the component to create the correct screen hierarchy.
 
diff --git a/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-screen/README.md b/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-screen/README.md
index 1f4e9be468d54b..d71d785ed164c8 100644
--- a/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-screen/README.md
+++ b/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-screen/README.md
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ The component accepts the following props:
 
 ### `path`: `string`
 
-The screen's path, matched against the current path stored in the navigator.
+The screen"s path, matched against the current path stored in the navigator.
 
-`Navigator` assumes that screens are organized hierarchically according to their `path`, which should follow a URL-like scheme where each path segment is separated by the `/` character.
+`Navigator` assumes that screens are organized hierarchically according to their `path`, which should follow a URL-like scheme where each path segment starts with and is separated by the `/` character.
 
 `Navigator` will treat "back" navigations as going to the parent screen — it is therefore responsibility of the consumer of the component to create the correct screen hierarchy.