{"id":71992,"date":"2020-05-13T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=71992"},"modified":"2022-11-29T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T22:33:53","slug":"vigorous-verbs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-1-3\/word-choice\/vigorous-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigorous Verbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Word Choice<\/h5>\n<p>The specific verbs or action words that writers choose can change the way a reader is able to \u201csee\u201d the story.<\/p>\n<p>Read the following sentences together with your child. Talk together about what the reader might think about how the girl feels, based on the verb that the author chose.<\/p>\n<p>She <strong>walked<\/strong> into her room.<br \/>\nShe <strong>skipped<\/strong> into her room.<br \/>\nShe <strong>trudged<\/strong> into her room.<br \/>\nShe <strong>snuck<\/strong> into her room.<br \/>\nShe <strong>slipped<\/strong> into her room.<\/p>\n<h3>Listen to the book To Root, To Toot, To Parachute by Brian P. Cleary and Illustrated by Jenya Prosmitsky<\/h3>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yY9Gww1Y14w<\/p>\n<p>Here are some verbs from the book. Play a game with your child, taking turns acting out the verbs and guessing what the word is!<\/p>\n<p>Dance<br \/>\nPrance<br \/>\nTumble<br \/>\nSlam<br \/>\nFold<br \/>\nScurry<br \/>\nSwim<br \/>\nPaddle<br \/>\nLeap<br \/>\nCrawl<br \/>\nSlump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The specific verbs or action words that writers choose can change the way a reader is able to \u201csee\u201d the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72606,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71992","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71992","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=71992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71992\/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=71992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}