Word Work and Word Play Too!

About a week ago we had a session of Reader's Workshop where the children worked in pairs to create words "in the op family".  This means words that are formed by putting a consonant in front of "op".  Here you can see the children experimenting with magnet letters and finding lots of rhyming words in the op family.  I also wanted to share a picture of a different kind of word work- what we call "superstar sentences".  Take a look at the satisfaction on this student's face as he sits in front of his creation "The slow dinosaur said no.  Let's go moon monster!"