Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day by Robin Pulver

Reed's now-signature acrylic-and-digital illustrations are as quirky and colorful as ever.

As in the previous titles, the words in the text are printed in two colors, allowing the suffixes to stand out from the rest of the text. Reassured of the students' good intentions, the suffixes leave clues for them to decode and thus find them, saving not only the kids' educations but summer vacation as well. Threatened with no summer vacation unless they find the word endings, the kids hang (suffix-less) wanted posters all over the school. 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. 6-8), The team that taught students about nouns and verbs, punctuation and silent letters now tackles suffixes.almost literally. While this may not be as strong as the previous titles from this duo, still it is a good addition to their language-arts series. Backmatter includes a page of spelling rules for adding endings to words and a page delineating some different suffixes and how their additions change the root word. 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. Grammar will be a lot less boring to learn with a library of Ms.

Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day by Robin Pulver