Friday, December 8, 2017

prefixes and dictionaries

On Monday, we had a lesson on deconstructing words that have prefixes and finding their definition in a dictionary. It was amazing to me (an now on reflection no so amazing) that children really had no concept of using a dictionary. It's very simple to find definitions of words on wikipedia, but using a dictionary is a valuable skill to refine.
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until 27 September

September is a wrap! Finished another Louise Erdrich, Shadow Tag. Not my favorite, but still well written. 

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