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Songs, texts, pop stars

Create similes and metaphors...

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poetry from Rebecca Kai Dotlich

---ING - action words

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Dialogue

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Never Take a Shark to the Dentist by Judi Barrett | Scholastic

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Author Judi Barrett and illustrator John Nickle give us a look at the perils of taking giraffes to the movies, goats to the library, and pigs out to lunch...and

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Explaining character with internal and external traits with adjectives.

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Use wordless picture books to model sentence writing and interactive writing for grammar concepts.

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Use wordless picture books to model sentence writing and interactive writing for grammar concepts.

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See Melissa McBride

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writeguy.net

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Books I Recommend This is a compilation of books that I use and love in my classroom. Enjoy. Please feel free to send me your suggestions. ...

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Can a word be a noun and a verb?

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Does every word have a vowel

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How are you? All of the words you've read so far in these first two sentences have something in common. Can you guess what it is? We'll give you six hints: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.

If you guessed that all of the words you've read so far contain at least one , you're correct! Of course, with such a good hint, it was probably fairly easy to guess the answer. But does every have a ? You may have heard people claim that every in the English contains at least one , but is it true?

Like many arguments that involve , the answer isn't a simple yes or no. It depends upon who you ask, how you define , and what you consider to be a . Since this question is still debated among scholars, let's take a closer look at some of the issues.

For example, some scholars define differently. Some argue vowels are sounds made with the tract open. Others believe vowels are simply the letters of the that stand for the spoken sounds, namely a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.

There are a few words of Welsh that do not contain a, e, i, o, u, or y, including cwm (a in a mountainous region, usually with steep sides), crwth (a Welsh musical instrument similar to the ), and cwtch (a hiding place). However, each of these words does have a , since the w in each stands for the "oo" you hear in words like doom and tooth.

If you're looking for words that contain neither sounds nor the letters a, e, i, o, u, or y, you need to look no further than shh, psst, and mm-hmm. Of course, some experts would argue that these aren't even really words.

Others disagree. If you define a as "the smallest of grammar that can stand alone as a complete , separated by spaces in written and potentially by pauses in ," then shh, psst, and mm-hmm would arguably fit that definition. Still, psst is the only one of those words that actually appears in the Oxford English Dictionary.

So what do you think? Which experts do you agree with? Regardless of what position you take on the issue, it's clear that nearly all English words have at least one , regardless of how you define it. Vowels are important and make nearly every better!

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How are you? All of the words you've read so far in these first two sentences have something in common. Can you guess what it is? We'll give you six hints: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. If you guessed that all of the words you've read so far contain at least one , you're correct!

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How does your school use technology?

We've linked in a connected wonder of the day. Go to Wonderopolis for more!

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Do you get to play with any neat toys at school? As more and more schools take advantage of new technology to make learning easier, you may get the chance to use personal computers, laptops, tablets, or maybe even smartphones and handheld devices in the classroom.

Classrooms were not always as well-equipped as they can be today, though. One-room schoolhouses once used hornbooks, which were wooden paddles with lessons written on them to teach. We've come a long way since then!

Before students had pencils and , they often used slates, which were small, handheld blackboards that they could write on with . Can you imagine taking notes on those?

In fact, the classroom chalkboard didn't come along until the late 1800s. It must have been nice for teachers to be able to write on a large surface that the entire could see at one time. While chalkboards certainly seem like a thing of the past today, they were cutting edge technology at one time!

Over the years as new technologies developed, new items were slowly added to classrooms as educators figured out how they could be used to improve the learning experience. This was the case with items such as film projectors, radios, televisions, videotape players, and overhead projectors.

Copying machines also revolutionized classrooms when they came along in the mid-1900s. Being able to give students copies of lessons for homework and studying expanded the classroom beyond its walls and the of the usual school day.

The use of audio tapes and headphones in the classroom made learning languages easier. They also helped students with vision or reading problems, since they could now listen to lessons rather than read them.

Handheld calculators made math easier for students. They also helped math teachers move more quickly through advanced material.

There are hundreds of other examples of educational technology over the years. In the past couple of decades, though, schools have seen a tremendous increase in the use of cutting-edge, modern technology in the classroom.

With the invention of the personal computer, education took a huge leap forward. When you factor in the Internet, modern education looks different than it did when your parents were in school.

Today, it's not uncommon for children to use their own laptop or tablet computers in school. Other schools may incorporate the use of handheld computers, MP3 players, or smartphones. Some schools even use Internet services to communicate with other teachers and schools around the world!

You may even be viewing today's Wonder of the Day via the Internet in your classroom! How cool is that? Some classes even use technology to create their own websites to share with their friends, relatives, and parents what's going on in their classroom.

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Anchor charts

Student Work

Book Covers

Class artifacts

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Goodnight Ipad helps us to reflect on tech tools and what we use in our world.