P.S. If we had even more library time I'd read this one. (I hope you do and can share this with your child.) It's the beautifully illustrated biography of Peter Mark Roget called, The Right Word and it's all about the creation of the thesaurus.
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After reading about Michael and his love of collecting words from the book, The Very Inappropriate Word, by Jim Tobin, our library has a new poster named, "The Very Appropriate Word." Third graders have been invited to share their newly found special and interesting words and their meanings such as, VOID, PUTRID and FOE. After searching through our library collection I found many other books to share with the children about the amazing use of words in our English language. We read puzzle word books such as, Mr Putney's Quacking Dog and A Huge Hog is a Big Pig. We read a story, Baloney, Henry P. that uses the Latvian word ZIMULIS to replace the English word pencil. We learned a zillion rhyming words for baguette and about word idioms such as, "Hold Your Tongue." Other book titles we might not get around to but celebrate the joy of words and language are: ...all about the importance of using commas ...all about the use of wordles as opposed to homonyms (groups of words that sound the same but mean different things.) ...all about letters turned into nautical codes (signal flags, morse code, semaphore) As this library unit is ending, we'll finish with the read aloud, all about the author, Noah Webster, and his creation of the first American dictionary.
P.S. If we had even more library time I'd read this one. (I hope you do and can share this with your child.) It's the beautifully illustrated biography of Peter Mark Roget called, The Right Word and it's all about the creation of the thesaurus.
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Author For 29 years I had the best job as School Librarian in the Aaron Kushner Library for grades Pre K-3 at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston. Although I am retired, I remain Lori the Librarian. Archives
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