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Gr 1-3 As in "Punctuation Takes a Vacation" (2003) and "Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day" (2006, both Holiday House), Pulver and Rowe tackle another grammar lesson with humorous examples and whimsical illustrations. The students in Mr. Wright's class have decided that they have had enough of silent letters; they can't be heard and they make spelling too tough. After listening to their complaints, their teacher urges th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Following Punctuation Takes a Vacation (rev. 5/03) and Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day (rev. 5/06), silent letters get a turn to make themselves heard in Mr. Wright's class. Frustrated with these hard-working yet reticent letters, Mr. Wright's students e-mail the newspaper to propose banning them: "We can't hear them, so who needs them?" The answer is amusingly obvious when the offended letters abandon the e...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Following <i>Punctuation Takes a Vacation</i> and <i>Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day</i>, silent letters make themselves heard. Fr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More