A Year of Reading: Take Away the A

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I have a book at home that I just love. In this book, they have taken a real word, changed a single letter, and created a new word. For example, a "pugeon" is a fat bird.  I read it often for the humor of the vocabulary wordplay.

 

I found this book initially on the "A Year of Reading" blog referenced above, and immediately fell in love. It's pretty much a children's version of the same thing, but with all "real" words. The premise is that there are a host of words that "become" other words by changing a single letter.  Here's a sample from the first few pages:

by Michaël Escoffier (Author), Kris Di Giacomo (Illustrator)

 

"Without the A

the BEAST is BEST.

Without the B

the BRIDE goes for a RIDE.

Without the C

the CHAIR has HAIR."

 WOW! What could your class of first or second graders DO with a book like that? Just THINK of all the class book variations they could come up with!

What could you include in your "Work on Writing" Daily 5 station with this as a premise?