Today, we continued to discuss our reading strategies/thinking while reading post-its with a focus on Author's Craft. We talked about John Updike's use of literary devices in his poem, October. We made great connections to how we feel in the month of October. However, students were a little stumped on what "frost bites the lawn" might look like in the early October morning. Perhaps show them one morning! We also noticed that he intentionally writes with beautiful craft, including personification, similes, metaphors, and imagery. We discussed some new terms, too, including idiom, hyperbole, and assonance. See if your child knows these literary devices! We also continued our discussion of Gooney Bird Greene, noticing that the author writes with a lot of repetition in her story.
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