Every dog has a tale to tell and every word a story. We’ve selected a few of our favourite books as we investigate pets and plurals.
Dreamers
‘One day we packed our bags, and we crossed a bridge as wide as the universe, bringing with us our gifts.’ Words let you tell your story.
Actual Size
Ever wondered the actual size of a goby fish or whether actual is part of the act family? Find out when you join us this week.
Voices In The Park
Four different voices tell the story of a walk in the park. Join us to explore the word perspective in this week’s book by Anthony Browne.
International Peace Day
Peace – pax – vrede. We introduce three books which explore this important concept. Dive into words while sharing the message of peace.
The Dot
On Sept 15ish create bravely and be courageous exploring words just like Peter H. Reynolds was in his Creatrilogy. Start with The Dot.
How To Read A Book
Let your fingers wonder as they wander… So many wonderings about words as you engage with this poem about the magic of books.
We All Play
We all play…a celebration of the interconnectedness between humans and nature. Join us as we play with words.
We Don’t Eat Our Classmates
You don’t eat your classmates but you do study words with them! Enjoy this lighthearted book while you look at the structure of words.
You Matter
Near or far. Big or small. First or last. You matter. Watch to find how words matter too in this great community-building text.
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
What is a memory? Wilfrid learns they are an important part of our identity.
The Word Collector
People collect things…Jerome collected words. Watch as Fiona, Lauren and Angela walk you through this resource for investigating words.
Lauren & Angela
A mutual love of children’s literature, and a shared desire to support teachers to better understand our orthography to empower students to become ‘word noticers and word knowers’ brought us all together.
Knuffelcontact: word of the year
Lots of coronavirus language has sprung up with Covid19. Find out what a knuffelcontact has to do with knights or knees and even Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems.
We’re all in this together
Learn about the structure of the terms synchronous and asynchronous, find related words, and investigate the prefix syn-.
What’s in – What’s out?
Practice finding words in a morphological word family through an in-out sort. Show your students the video and set the challenge to create their own.
Sorting-out Structure: Purposeful Practice
Solidify your students’ understanding of the structural elements of words, the morphemes, through practice. Show them the video and set the challenge.
Play the music, let’s dance!
In these uncertain coronavirus times lift your mood, play some music, dance and along the way do some word inquiry around the base dance.
Odd-one-out
Look closely at the morphemes and graphemes in a group of four words to find the one that doesn’t belong. Is there really only one ‘odd-one-out’?
Excuse the interruption but words have stories…
All words have stories of their own. The etymology of words like erupt and interruption shows us how they are connected by both meaning and structure. Learning the story of a family of words helps deepen comprehension.