12 Days Countdown… Day 10: HOPE

12 Days CountdownWinter
Written By Linda

JOYcabulary is counting down the days to the holiday break with our 12 Days Countdown. This series of 12 posts are like a vocabulary advent calendar to keep word learning going during the hectic holiday season.

Wishing you happiness, health, and word wealth. Here’s a warm-up poem, “Aunt Flo” by Jack Prelutsky:

Check out Silver Packages: An Appalachian Christmas Story by Cynthia Rylant read aloud video:

Check out this real live Appalachian Santa Train!

Linda

Linda Szakmary has five decades of experience working as a classroom teacher, a district curriculum writer, a district facilitator of K-5 writing, and as a county K-8 literacy coach. She now works for Sullivan and Orange-Ulster BOCES as a content specialist. A poetry advocate and a lover of words and children’s literature, she has been a presenter at several state-wide conferences on vocabulary and writing. Currently, she is working with the staff developers of Mossflower to study intermediate vocabulary instruction within a reading workshop. Linda lives in Stone Ridge, NY where she enjoys gardening, yoga, reading, and rooting for the Yankees. You can often find her on a beach searching for sea glass.

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