Writing++-+Word+Choice

**Week Three ~ Word Choice**

**Reading Suggestions** //Word Choice//
 * Examples (Pages 57-65)
 * Checklist for Word Choice (Page 65)
 * Teaching strategies (Pages 127-131)
 * Teaching Word Choice (Pages 98-99)
 * Books for Teaching Word Choice (Pages 217-222)
 * Six Point writing guide (Pages 287)
 * Primary Continuum Word Choice (Page 254)

** Thought questions **


 * How can we help our students enrich their choices of words in writing?
 * What is the best way to teach new vocabulary to primary students?
 * What are your favorite “word choice” books?

Websites


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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [] great list of books with lesson plan
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] lesson plan with book
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [] story starters
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [] story starters
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/startingtowrite/tp/Short-Story-Ideas.htm\]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [] word choice song video

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Books**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__James and the Giant Peach__ : [|http://writingfix.com/Chapter_Book_Prompts/JamesPeach1.htm**] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Click Clack, Moo/Cows that Type:__ typewriter, sincerely, go on strike, background, impatient, demand, furious, ultimatum snoop, neutral (spandel 217)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Spiders and Their Websites__: animated nonfiction ( Spandel 218)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Lord of the Forest__: Caroline Pritcher (Spandel 220)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__My Name is Yoon__: Helen Recorvitz (Spadel 220)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__The Boy Who Loved Words__: Roni Schotter (Spandel 220)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Walter Was Worried__: Laura Seeger (Spandel 221)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__The Great Fuzz Frenzy__: Janet and Susan Stevens (Spandel 221)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Thins That Are Mos__t Judi Barrett (Primary Write Traits 128) generate list of comparative adjectives

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Slowly Slowly Said the Sloth__, Eric Carle (Primary Write Traits) words that mean slow

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Alphabet Adenture,__ Audrey Woods (Culham 199)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Cassie’s Word Quilt__, Faith Ringgold, (Culham 199)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Dinosailors__, Deb Lund (Culham 200)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Hello Ocean__, Pam Munoz Ryan (Culham 200)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__My Chair,__ Betsy James (Culham 200)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__My Light__, Molly Bang (Culham 201)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Moon Rope__, Lois Ehlert (Culham 201)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__The Old Woman Who Named Things__, Cynthia Rylant (Culham 201)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__A Place to Grow__, Soyung Pak, (Culham 202)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Where is the Green Sheep__, Mem Fox (Culham 202)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Word Choice Games **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Upwords
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Scrabble Slam
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Scattegories
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Pictionary
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Bogle