I will occasionally share literary terms that we are learning. We spent time on alliteration and now we’ll be watching for onomatopoeia. The children love these power words and I hope you’ll be able to reinforce the concepts at home when you read together. Onomatopoeia is the use of sound words in writing. I will also encourage the children to use onomatopoeia in their own writing.

We are learning that authors write for different purposes. It’s as easy as P.I.E! Authors write to persuade, inform, and entertain. We tried to think of ways to persuade others to pick our jack-o-lanterns form the patch. Which one would you pick?