April 2022 - Page 5 of 14 - Anastasia Suen

Road Trip Earth: Explore Our Awesome Planet, from Core to Shore and So Much More
by Molly Bloom (Author), Marc Sanchez (Author) and Sanden Totten (Author)
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Booktalk: Did you ever wonder why volcanoes erupt? Or why the ocean is salty? How about why no two snowflakes are the same?

Embark on an epic road trip to find the answers to these burning questions and more! Travel deep inside the earth, through the oceans, the land, the clouds, and even into the outer atmosphere in a high-tech ride–to uncover the coolest facts, strangest mysteries, and most incredible marvels of our planet.

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

Away with Words!: Wise and Witty Poems for Language Lovers
by Mary Ann Hoberman (Author) and Perry Hoberman (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Celebrate the joy of wordplay with poems about the alphabet, assonance, alliteration, grammar and punctuation, similes, rhythm and rhyme, and so much more in this poetry collection.

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ASSONANCE/ALLITERATION

Assonance/Alliteration –
Here’a a bit of information
If you’d like to keep them straight,
Consonants alliterate:
Pa put peppers on Pat’s plate.
Vowels instead are assonant:
Pa want almonds for Ma’s aunt.
Sometimes they appear together:
Wes wed Wendy in wet weather.

Margaret is hosting Poetry Friday at Reflections on the Teche