Monday, May 10, 2010

Scaredy Squirrel Wordle Assignment

We've been reading Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt in our focus to read like a writer. We have discussed some strategies that writers use to improve their word choice. Click on the comments to read our reviews of the book (from a writer's perspective).

After your review has been posted, create a Wordle about Scaredy Squirrel (use a ~ between words that you want to keep together in your wordle). When you are finished, post it to our wiki in the Fears and Phobias folder, on the Scraredy Squirrel page. Make sure you upload your wordle with your name in file name!!

17 comments:

  1. Scaredy Squirrel
    My opinion of Scaredy Squirrel is, a very nice and neat way of a putting a story together with the pictures telling the story. The word choice was excellent, it really fit together. I wouldn’t change anything because everything fits together and stays on topic. I would recommend because the word choice is brilliant and is fantastic for all ages. Effective word choice made Scaredy Squirrel strong because you think “well that’s interesting” instead of “that’s bland”. The word “incredible” instead of “good” was and excellent synonym to choose.

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  2. Review of Scaredy Squirrel
    The book Scaredy Squirrel was a great book for children, I even enjoyed it. It was about a squirrel that was afraid of lots of things and didn’t want to leave its nut tree. This was a great book for children because it was appropriate for them, and it was hilarious. I really liked the illustrations and the word choice. The effective word choice that made it a great book was venturing, consult, roaming and drastic. Some of those words would have been a little bit difficult for some kids to understand. I would recommend this book to anyone who want to have a great laugh, and because it had really great word choice.

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  3. Scaredy Squirrel book review

    I think the book “Scaredy Squirrel” is a very energetic and fun book to read. I recommend this book for anyone who would like a adventurous and full of action selection. I would recommend this book because it is a book for any age group and the whole family will enjoy it. This author did such an awesome job of making this a fun to read book. She used excellent work choice in this book. Some examples are Predictable, unexpected, horrible and drastic she used these words in they appropriate time.

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  4. Review of Scaredy Squirrel
    Scaredy squirrel is a wonderful book because it has excellent word choice, such as predictable, unexpected, and many more! The best thing about this book is that it is suitable for both young and old people. Something about Scaredy Squirrel that I like is that he overcomes his fears, and his fears are unreasonable so you get a good laugh. I would recommend this book is because its funny and everyone can enjoy it! Effective word choice makes Scaredy Squirrel a good book because it makes this story very descriptive and makes everyone want to keep reading it! Some examples are when he fell out of his tree and it mad us want to keep reading. Another good word choice is instead of “scared” she used “terrified” and instead of “fell” she used “tumbled” she used very good synonyms

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  5. Review of Scaredy Squirrel
    Scaredy Squirrel is a squirrel who is always scared of going out in the unknown. I think that Scaredy Squirrel is a good story because it has precise words, good synonyms, changes unnecessary words and shows but doesn’t tell.
    It makes it a better picture book because when people don’t know what a word means they have to read ahead to know what it means.

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  6. Review of Scaredy Squirrel
    The Scaredy squirrel is about a squirrel that is terrified of a lot of things. So one day he drops his emergency kit out the window and he jumps out the window and he starts to glide and now he never afraid to try new thing again.
    Effective word choice is good because it sets a good example for little children to try new things and don’t be scared about trying new things.

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  7. Review of Scaredy Squirrel

    Scaredy Squirrel is a great book with lots of details. Scaredy Squirrel is an enjoyable book for people of all ages. I enjoyed Scaredy Squirrel because it’s a different genre from all the chapter books. It also has many illustrations!!! I would recommend this book because it has excellent word choice.
    It makes the book interesting by using precise words like gliding, Overjoyed and adventurous. She also uses different word each time like instead of scared all the time she uses terrified and horrified.

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  8. Scaredy Squirrel Review!
    I think it was very funny, there was good word choice, and it will make a good childrens book! But I mean come on he plays dead for three hours? He is that scared no one is that scared well I guess some people are or in this case squirrels.
    I would highly recommend this book because its funny and it shows little kids there’s nothing to be afraid of!
    There not a lot that could be changed but they could add more juicy words and sometimes explain what they mean, don’t get me wrong there is good words just not so many for example for good words there was:
    Venturing Incredible Excitement Predictable Adventurous Panic Overjoyed Carefree Unexpected Horrible ECT.
    Everything was very detailed and described with excellent words you could picture it without the pictures like a short very short novel!
    My sum. Is that it is a very good and you will have to read it to find out more!

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  9. Scaredy Squirrel Review
    I thought scaredy squirrel was a magnificent book. The word choice the author used was well selected. It was extremely funny. It was about a little squirrel afraid to venture from his nut tree. It is a great book for young children but you will enjoy it no matter how old. I would recommend it to anyone who wants a chuckle. The author doesn’t need to change a thing. Good word choice is important in a book because it makes it more interesting, people will want read more. Some examples of good words the author used are venturing, predictable, roaming, and drastic.

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  10. Scaredy Squirrel Review
    Scaredy Squirrel is a squirrel that is terrified to go explore the life outside of his nut tree. The reason I enjoyed this book is because of the way Scaredy Squirrel has to be so prepared for everything in his life. I would definitely recommend this book to everyone who enjoys hilarious books. If I were to change anything about this book i would use some more precise words. I believe Scaredy Squirrel uses effective word choices because like in this sentence it has two great word choices (the ones in italics and underlined) “All this excitement has inspired Scaredy Squirrel to make drastic changes to his life.”

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  11. Scaredy Squirrel
    I think scaredy squirrel is an enjoyable story because it is full of awesome word choice. It is also great for having lots of detail.
    My opinion is that it could be a little longer and have more interesting pictures.
    I would recommend this story for anyone who enjoys laughter and a detailed story.
    Some of the details could be changed and made more interesting.

    Effective word choice is important because it makes it more understanding and interesting for an older and younger audience

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  12. Scaredy Squirrel is about a squirrel who is terrified of almost everything. I would recommend this book because it is funny and it has great word choice, but I think it could be more interesting if there was more action.
    Effective word choice makes Scaredy Squirrel a strong picture book because it makes it more interesting and it helps you visualize it better. Some examples of effective word choice in Scaredy Squirrel are:
    incredible
    venturing
    drastic

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  13. “Scaredy Squirrel” Review
    I really like Scaredy Squirrel, because the author made Scaredy Squirrel terrified of alot of things. He is just about blocked from the outside world. I enjoyed this story because of how he plays dead for so long. I would recommend this book, especially for younger kids, because it is very hilarious, entertaining, has good word choice, and good illustrations.
    Effective word choice makes “Scaredy Squirrel” a strong picture book because, it makes people learn better descriptive words and makes people want to read more. For example disadvantages, assuder, predictable.

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  14. Scaredy Squirrel Review
    Effective word choice makes scaredy squirrel a strong picture book by making it funny, enjoyable, and it makes you want to read it again or read more of it. Examples are:
    -Venturing
    -Unknown
    -Panic
    -Overjoyed
    -adventurous
    -Drastic
    -Predictable
    -Unexpected

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  15. My review of Scaredy Squirrel. I think Scaredy Squirrel was an excellent kid’s book for little kids; it didn’t have too many big words. I would recommend this book for little kids because like I said doesn’t have too many complex words, small story so kids don’t get restless. Strong word choice makes Scaredy Squirrel an effective picture book because in one Paragraph Scaredy Squirrel is gliding to the unknown and then it shows he glides there and shows what he does there.

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  16. Scaredy Squirrel Review
    The author did a very good job on good word choices like drastic, predictable, overjoyed, and unknown. The author did very well on making good word choice to make the story interesting by putting better words on to make more sense and to make the story funny.
    Effective word choice makes “Scaredy Squirrel” a strong picture book because you still can see the images in your mind from the word choices.
    Here’s some good word choices…
    Overjoyed, predictable, unexpected, according, dirastic, and ordinary.

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  17. Scaredy Squirrel
    What I thought was fantastic about Scaredy Squirrel is that Scaredy Squirrel learns that not all things are scary. Would I recommend Scaredy Squirrel? Yes because Scaredy Squirrel is so cute and little kid would adore this book. I think the author chose fabulous word choice because it is easy for little kids to read. I probably not want to change anything because you always need something easy to read. I think the words that made Scaredy Squirrel such a strong story is the words;
    Familiar
    Adventurous
    Excitement
    Drastic
    Overjoyed

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