{"id":71041,"date":"2020-04-21T12:14:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T16:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=71041"},"modified":"2020-05-22T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T17:33:02","slug":"delightful-descriptions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-1-3\/word-choice\/delightful-descriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Delightful Descriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Word Choice<\/h5>\n<p>Writers think of the very best words to describe things! Read this poem about an apple.<\/p>\n<p>Apple<br \/>\nRound, shiny<br \/>\nBumpy, sweet<br \/>\nDelicious, crunchy<br \/>\nSmooth<br \/>\nApple<\/p>\n<p>Brainstorm a list of nouns that are \u201cthings\u201d (e.g., apple, table, car, grass, tree).<\/p>\n<p>Choose one of your \u201cthings\u201d. Think of as many words as you can to describe it. You might want to create a chart to help you.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"width: 20%;\">Looks<\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 20%;\">Feels<\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 20%;\">Tastes<\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 20%;\">Smells<\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 20%;\">Sounds<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 20%;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 20%;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 20%;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 20%;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 20%;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Choose the best words! Write a poem about your \u201cthing\u201d. You can also illustrate your poem if you. Share it with someone. Don\u2019t tell them the title&#8230;can they guess what your \u201cthing\u201d is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers think of the very best words to describe things! Read this poem about an apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72606,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71041","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71041\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}