Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day by Robin Pulver

Wright to skip the read-aloud and go directly to the lesson. Meanwhile, the kids' atrocious behavior in the lunchroom leads Mr. Wright announces, 'After lunch and our read-aloud, we'll tackle word endings,' the anthropomorphized suffixes head to the gym to get into shape for the coming melee.

Does the suffix topic signal the end of the series? I ly-certain hope not., The team that taught students about nouns and verbs, punctuation and silent letters now tackles suffixes.almost literally. Together, they can create marvelous poems, plays, and memoirs.Grammar will be a lot less boring to learn with a library of Ms. The vowels and the consonants fight each other until they realize that if they work The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants The members of the Vowel family have a hard time talking until their children, Alan, Ellen, Iris, Otto, and Ursula, are born, and when one of them gets lost one day, it takes their Aunt Cyndy to fix the problem. Wright’s students express a dislike for silent letters, the offended letters decide to teach them a lesson by going on strike. Wright’s class have a field day, nouns and verbs in the classroom make their own fun. Silent e, a quiet, unassuming young boy, magically changes objects wherever he goes, such as making a little bit of cake a bite of cake or turning a kit into a kite.Ī fun way to learn where quotation marks belong through a story about a classroom production of different plays. When clever Aunt Ant moves to the zoo, she describes the quirky animal behavior she observes by speaking in homophones, from the moose who loved mousse to the fox who blew blue bubbles. There’s a new family in town: the Punctuations! When Exclamation Point, Question Mark, Period, and Comma join the letters at school, they form words like Wow! and Why? and Yes. In this volume of the Grammar All-Stars: Kinds of Words series, sports announcer Buzz Star is covering a karate tournament and teaching Isobel, last year’s winner, about the proper use of contractions. Need supplemental text for your language arts lessons? These 10 picture books complement grammar learning for grades K-3.Īlfie the Apostrophe feels unsure of himself until he shows off his abilities for possessives and making contractions at the Punctuation Talent Show.Īs Buzz and Isobel report on the tournament’s events, their conversation is filled with contractions, all in bold print, and Buzz fills Isobel in on the many rules.

Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day by Robin Pulver