{"id":71894,"date":"2020-05-11T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=71894"},"modified":"2020-05-22T13:35:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T17:35:35","slug":"word-collections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-1-3\/word-choice\/word-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-70897\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/words.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/words.png 1500w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/words-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/words-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/words-768x765.png 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/words-1024x1020.png 1024w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/words-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/words-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/words-165x164.png 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/words-1140x1135.png 1140w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/words-945x941.png 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/words-750x747.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Many topics that writers write about have very specific vocabulary or collections of words that are used for that topic.<\/p>\n<h2>Play this game with your child:<\/h2>\n<p>Say the three words in each of these lists, and see if you child can guess the topic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scales, gills, fins (fish)<\/li>\n<li>Hoop, dribble, jump shot (basketball)<\/li>\n<li>Furry, wet nose, barking (dogs)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Encourage your child to think of a topic, and say a list of three vocabulary words that pertain to that topic. Can you guess the topic? Take turns with this game! You can play it anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many topics that writers write about have very specific vocabulary or collections of words that are used for that topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72606,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71894","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71894","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=71894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71894\/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=71894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}