Students explore using electronic messaging and Internet abbreviations for specific purposes and examine the importance of using a more formal style of writing based on their audience.
The Flip-a-Chip activity provides hands-on practice with affixes and roots, and also promotes comprehension through structural analysis and vocabulary in context.
Everyone loves getting a greeting card, especially if it's homemade. Make a funny or thoughtful greeting card or invitation with pictures and a poem, joke, or riddle.
Let children practice using different types of words in a fill-in-the-blank-story game before making their own word list for a magnetic poetry set.
Kids learn about weather sayings throughout history while writing and illustrating a book for younger children.