6Traits Digest #118 - Tuesday, January 4, 2000

  Two more good books for Word Choice
          by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com>


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Subject: Two more good books for Word Choice
From: "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 19:04:34 -0700

I read Eric Carle's new book to my 2nd graders today.  It's _The Very
Clumsy Click Beetle_.  My students pointed out several wonderful verbs to
me.  They are getting good!

Later we reversed from new to old and I read the first Curious George book
to them, written in 1941.  In that one, too, are some excellent verb word
choices.  They found them all!  

This does work, believe me it does.  Now that they are starting to
recognize good choices, they are actually beginning to use those choices =
in
their own writing.

Don't give up.  To quote Tim Allen, "Never give up.  Never surrender!"  =
=3D)

Susan Nixon
2nd Grade
Phoenix, AZ

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