KNICKKNACK
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Students - When I pointed (closed-eyed) to this word, I cheered inside. Isn't it a treat in your mouth? I thought about a few possible ideas for writing with this wondrous word but kept coming back to simply loving words and wanting to list my favorites. I always make lists of fabulous words in the back of each notebook, and for today, I wanted to play with the -ack and -ock sound.
Do you know what I want to do now? I want to read this poem in a round with someone else, the second person coming in after the first four lines. I wonder if that would be tricky.
Teachers - Below you will see a small gift that I often share. I've had it so long that I cannot remember where I found it, but what a perfect celebration of words! I hope it will inspire you to keep a list of words you love and to continue to find ways to nurture such wordlove in students. A class journal of magnificent words, a bulletin board of words, a pause after read aloud for a favorite word...please let me know what you do to cherish these little collections of letters! (If you know where this came from, please tell me so that I can give credit to the proper source.)
In case you are new here, this month I am walking, letter-by-letter, through the dictionary, (closed-eyed) pointing to a letter each day, and writing from it. You can read poems A-J` by checking the sidebar, and you visit Lisa Vihos and read her accompanying daily haiku at, Lisa's Poem of the Week. She and I are Dictionary Hike partners!
Tomorrow for Poetry Friday, please come back to hear wisdom from and sing birthday wishes to Lee Bennett Hopkins! To celebrate, tomorrow you may enter a drawing for a giveaway of his latest anthology, NASTY BUGS!
Do you know what I want to do now? I want to read this poem in a round with someone else, the second person coming in after the first four lines. I wonder if that would be tricky.
Teachers - Below you will see a small gift that I often share. I've had it so long that I cannot remember where I found it, but what a perfect celebration of words! I hope it will inspire you to keep a list of words you love and to continue to find ways to nurture such wordlove in students. A class journal of magnificent words, a bulletin board of words, a pause after read aloud for a favorite word...please let me know what you do to cherish these little collections of letters! (If you know where this came from, please tell me so that I can give credit to the proper source.)
In case you are new here, this month I am walking, letter-by-letter, through the dictionary, (closed-eyed) pointing to a letter each day, and writing from it. You can read poems A-J` by checking the sidebar, and you visit Lisa Vihos and read her accompanying daily haiku at, Lisa's Poem of the Week. She and I are Dictionary Hike partners!
Tomorrow for Poetry Friday, please come back to hear wisdom from and sing birthday wishes to Lee Bennett Hopkins! To celebrate, tomorrow you may enter a drawing for a giveaway of his latest anthology, NASTY BUGS!
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