The Boy Who Loved Words

Oh, the things you can do with The Boy Who Loved Words by Roni Schotter. Here is my list.

• Turn the title, a fragment, into a complete sentence which summarizes the story.

• Choose xx of Selig's favorite words. (You decide the number.) Based on the context, guess the meaning and part of speech of each one.  Then use a dictionary to check your guesses.

• Make a list of the words you love.

            Categories:
            I love the sound of these words in my ears.
            I love the taste of these words on my tongue.
            I love the thought of these words in my brain.
            I love the feel of these words in my heart.

• Incorporate words from the list into a story, identifying them with italics.

• Find several favorite sentences to imitate. Follow their structure, not their content. (If you want to practice using a dash in your writing, choose one of Schotter's many examples to imitate.)

           Example:
           "Pursuing that perfect note, Selig found a young woman seated by a lake, playing a lute."
            Hearing a soprano scream, Billy noticed a petite girl perched on the bleacher, rallying the             fans.

• Go on a language arts scavenger hunt. Find one or more of each of the following:   
  

            serial comma, alliteration, assonance, parallel structure, verb, adjective, appositive,                         metaphor, fragment, participle, simile, adverb

• If you want to take a deeper look at participles, look at the lesson here.