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Come romp with me amongst the words/Come play amongst the phrases/Swing and climb from pun to rhyme/And hop through versey mazes. Swim through rivers thick with thought/Rejoice from head to toe-etry. Beat your drums and shake your bums/And dance the dance of poetry. From the author of the best-selling Words Are CATegorical™ series, this playful poetry collection includes limericks, puns, palindromes, and more. Short annotations explain the various...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! The very funny Brian P. Cleary takes on the alphabet in this whimsical tour of everyone's 26 favorite letters. Rhyming, giggle-inspiring verses are illustrated with colorful digital collage artwork by Betsy Snyder. For added fun, every letter is hidden within the artwork-as are several objects starting with each letter!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! What is a verb? It's easier to show than explain! In this fun and animated introduction to grammar, rhyming verse is used to creatively clarify the concept of verbs. Chock-full of colorful, lively examples, the playful rhymes and illustrations of comical cartoon cats combine to hightlight key words in the sentences. Verbs like toss and tumble,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! "Word-Nerd" Brian P. Cleary and highly-acclaimed illustrator Brian Gable collaborate to clarify the concept of synonyms for young readers with playful, lively, and whimsical rhymes and humorous, comical, and amusing illustrations. For easy identification, synonyms are printed in color, and key words are illustrated on each page. This funny,...
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What is an antonym? You'll find the answer inside this book—it's all about antonyms! Author Brian P. Cleary and illustrator Brian Gable creatively clarify (not confuse) the concept of antonyms. Their clever (not foolish) rhymes and comical (not serious) illustrations combine to highlight key words. Each pair or group of antonyms is printed in color for easy identification.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Adverbs tell us when and how /Like, quickly do your homework, now /They often help describe the verbs /Like, patiently plant peas and herbs.
In this edition of Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely, author Brian Cleary and illustrator Brian Gable, cleverly provide numerous examples of adverbs. The text's playful rhymes combine with fun illustrations to build understanding of how this part of speech is used. New Try It! features, updated back matter, and a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! In this fun-filled book, playful puns and comical cartoon cats combine to show, not tell, readers what prepositions are all about. Each preposition in the text, like under, over, by the clover, about, throughout, and next to Rover, is highlighted in color for easy identification. This is the newest addition to the Words Are CATagorical series,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Just like a substitute teaches your class, /when she's asked to fill in for your teacher, /a pronoun steps in as a sub for a noun,/ becoming the star of the feature.
In this edition of I and You and Don't Forget Who, author Brian Cleary and illustrator Brian Gable provide numerous examples of pronouns. The text's playful rhymes combine with fun illustrations to build understanding of how this part of speech is used.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! What is a noun? It's easier to show than explain-and this book is brimming with examples. Author Brian Cleary and illustrator Jenya Promitsky creatively clarify the concept of nouns for young readers. Nouns are printed in color for easy identification, and the playful rhymes and illustrations combine to highlight key words.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Adjectives help tell us more /Like narrow street or favorite store /Hilly, chilly, fast, and fun /undercooked and overdone.
In this edition of Hairy, Scary, Ordinary, author Brian Cleary and illustrator, Jenya Prosmitsky, provide numerous examples of amazing adjectives. The text's playful rhymes combine with fun illustrations to build understanding of how this part of speech is used. New Try It! features, updated back matter, and a fresh font make...
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At lunch, / I ate three cans / of alphabet soup. / An hour later / I had / thesaurus / throat / ever.
Brian Cleary brings his trademark humor and wordplay to middle grade readers in this poetry collection. Featuring limericks, concrete poems, haiku, quatrains, acrostics, and much more, the book is in equal parts entertaining and educational. Spot illustrations accompany the poems, as do brief notes about poetic forms and poetic devices. An exceedingly...
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