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Here’s a game to play with a friend. Read the story aloud to your friend. Tell them that every time they hear a word with a silent letter, they should stand up. If they miss the word or stand up … Continue reading →

Newspapers and magazines are filled with images that symbolize ideas, places, products and more. We also see them in road signs and maps. See if you can explain the meaning of the symbols shown here and then come up with … Continue reading →

Find a person in the newspaper that you admire and create a poem about that person using the poem formula. Continue reading →

Spend 15 minutes each night this week outside your home, observing different kinds of living things in your yard or street. Record observations. Include day, date, time of observations, kinds of animals and then do an illustration of each. Share … Continue reading →

An idiom is a saying whose meaning cannot be taken literally. They are commonly used in the English language and can be very confusing to an English language learner. Can you match the idioms to the correct meaning? Idiom Meaning … Continue reading →

Write a short, subject-verb sentence. Example: Skunks smell. Look through the newspaper for words to add to the sentence. Now stretch the sentence by writing “Skunks” and “smell” farther apart. Add words before, between and after to make the sentence … Continue reading →

Write a poem about a panda using alliteration and assonance. Alliteration means repeating a letter or a consonant sound at the beginning of the words. For example, “playful, plump, panda in peril.” Assonance means repeating a vowel sound such as … Continue reading →

For each word write a definition and a sentence that illustrates understanding. What does it mean to have one or all of these qualities? Do you know anyone who demonstrates these character traits? Has there been a time when you … Continue reading →

We know that many words that are spelled the same way can have more than one meaning. They can be homophones: She rose from the table. The rose was a beautiful color. Or homonyms: I would like to lead the … Continue reading →

Can you think of ways to describe hot weather using “figurative” language? Examples would be: It’s so hot you could fry an egg on the sidewalk. It’s so hot, I’m melting! It’s boiling hot outside. Write down as many as … Continue reading →