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Experts are people who know huge volumes of information about a particular subject. For example, there are experts for sports, games, history, photography, chess, hiking, swimming, rocket ships, dogs, cats and everything else. There is even an expert for nonsense—silly stuff that makes no sense, but is fun to learn about. Gelett Burgess, born over 150 years ago, wears the crown as the “King of Nonsense!” A master of word play, Gelett was a clever thinker, writer and inventor of silly stories and poems that taught lessons to children. Memorize Gelett’s famous poem about a purple cow and meet his friends, Asleepnogo and Inkafinga. Discover the origin of words like “goop” and “blurb,” and be inspired to launch your own nonsensical journey into the land of word fun.
In this issue students will:
- Read biographical expository text
- Follow instructions in sequence to draw a mythical cow
- Use the newspaper to search for nonsense dot-to-dots
- Use a critical eye to spy common objects
- Design opposite ads to create your own nonsense
- Write sincerely about the importance of reading
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