I was tickled to learn the work “abecedary” recently. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abecedary Even more ticklish is the pronunciation. I was trying to make it fancy–/ab-ced-ar-ee/–but no. If you look in the definition page there, and even click the video it is /ay-bee-see-duh-ree/. It truly is a word made from the first three letters of the alphabet. A-B-C-dary.…
Wear the Cape proudly welcomes our first guest blogger! Jeni Cass is caped teacher from a charter school in San Diego. Jeni truly does wear her cape each day in her kinder classroom. Enjoy this amazing mentor text form Jeni! This Plus That by Amy Krause Rosenthal As a kinder teacher the thought of doing a…
Last week I talked about using UPPERCASE Magazine and their focus on “sticky things” as mentor texts. I also alluded to the fact that I would use more from this magazine. While the theme of this issue is collage, there is a “Creative Challenge” on page 75 that suggests collecting artifacts. There is a great…
UPPERCASE Magazine, Issue No. 18, “Cut it Out” is all about collage. Yup. you read that correctly, collage. It’s a beautful magazine printed on amazing paper. The tagline is “a magazine for the creative and curious.” Well that’s us in a nutshell is it not? Keeping “creative and curious” in mind, I thought I’d share…
For my first #113texts Mentor Text Challenge post, I am going out on a limb, out of the box, out of… something. This isn’t a typical mentor text for me, nor is this a typical mentor text post. But then again, the #113texts Mentor Text Challenge isn’t typical either, now is it? Caveat: I am…
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