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    Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective?
    Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective?
    Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective?
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    Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective?

    By Brian P. Cleary and Jenya Prosmitsky

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    Adjectives are words like hairy, scary, cool, and ordinary.

    Simple, rhyming text and colorful cartoon cats help children expand their vocabularies and gain an appreciation for the rhythm of language in this lighthearted book of rhyming verse. Adjectives like frilly, silly, polka-dotted, fizzy, and spunky are printed in color, and all the words will tickle you pink!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner Publishing
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781467743273
    Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective?
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    Brian P. Cleary

    Brian P. Cleary is an American humorist, poet, and author. He is best known for his books written for grade-school children that explore grammar, math and poetry in humorous ways. In his role in the digital division of American Greetings, he's put words in the mouths of Dolly Parton, Christina Aguilera, William Shatner, Meghan Trainor and more. The multi-million selling author has performed poetry workshops in 500 elementary schools across the county. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

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    • 4/5
      Cleary is at it again providing mentor texts, this time the subject is adjectives. Students, primarily K-2, will enjoy learning through this informational book.
    • 3/5
      Same as the other texts in this series, it does what it's intended to very well and I liked it for that.
    • 4/5
      Easy, breezy, broken, blue... Or, in Everett's words... Easy, breezy CoverGirl. Maybe too much TV...
    • 4/5
      This book would be great to have while teaching an english class. The book gives the definition of an adjective and then continues to adjectives through out the whole book in fun, silly ways.It uses rhyming and adjectives showing two aspects of english language. The adjectives are always in a different color then the rest of the text making them easy to identify. I think the rhyming and silliness of this book is great for students because reading it is fun and easy.
    • 4/5
      really shows what an adjective is.
    • 4/5
      This is the perfect book to introduce students to adjectives!! I think every students would enjoy this silly poem about adjectives and it would really help them to understand the concept. A great follow-up activity would be to have students make up their own adjective poem and read it aloud in class. This book is so creative and the pictures are very well done!

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