{"id":72100,"date":"2020-05-15T14:17:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T18:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=72100"},"modified":"2022-11-29T17:32:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T22:32:54","slug":"over-and-under-the-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-1-3\/word-choice\/over-and-under-the-rainforest\/","title":{"rendered":"Over and Under the Rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Word Choice<\/h5>\n<p>We have been learning a lot about the writing trait we call \u201cWord Choice\u201d. Authors choose the very best words to match the topic of their writing, and to create a picture for the reader.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to books by authors that use words and vocabulary that are new to your child helps to expand their vocabulary both as a reader, and as a writer.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy listening to one more book by Kate Messner. This one is special, as it is not being released until this summer. The author is giving us a sneak peak! Listen for the wonderful words the author uses to describe the sights and sounds of the rainforest.<\/p>\n<h3>Over and Under the Rainforest written by Kate Messner and Illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Over and Under the Rainforest\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SN6sYgdDHao?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been learning a lot about the writing trait we call \u201cWord Choice\u201d. Authors choose the very best words to match the topic of their writing, and to create a picture for the reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72606,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72100","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=72100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72100\/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=72100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}