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Boris Ate a Thesaurus
A boy eats a thesaurus and suddenly starts speaking in synonyms. Bright illustrations bring every page to life, delighting, exciting, and thrilling children while helping to build their
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- GenresPicture BooksChildrens
32 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2007
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November 11, 2018
Summary:
Boris eats a thesaurus which causes him to start saying synonyms. He become very popular and is asked to meet the president and to give a speech. Boris discovers something very important about books while in the Library of Congress.
Evaluation:
Humerous and educational book for kids of all ages. The illustrations are bright and colorful. I enjoyed reading it and I hope to make it part of my future classroom library.
Teaching ideas:
This would be a great book to introduce synonyms and antonyms. A synonym matching game would be a great small group activity. I would create cards with synonym pairs. I would also create cards with sentences that those words would make sense in. Students will place all cards face down. Students will draw one card and then draw a second card to find its match.
Boris eats a thesaurus which causes him to start saying synonyms. He become very popular and is asked to meet the president and to give a speech. Boris discovers something very important about books while in the Library of Congress.
Evaluation:
Humerous and educational book for kids of all ages. The illustrations are bright and colorful. I enjoyed reading it and I hope to make it part of my future classroom library.
Teaching ideas:
This would be a great book to introduce synonyms and antonyms. A synonym matching game would be a great small group activity. I would create cards with synonym pairs. I would also create cards with sentences that those words would make sense in. Students will place all cards face down. Students will draw one card and then draw a second card to find its match.
April 29, 2013
Boris Ate A Thesaurus by Neil Steven Klayman does an excellent job of teaching students about synonyms and thesauruses in a very humorous way! The illustrations were very bright and detailed. The character development was very well done. The reader knows Boris in just a few pages!
April 16, 2013
For this book I would teach synonyms. We would brainstorm as a class synonyms for words such as nice or good. Then I would have the students rewrite the story as if Boris at another kind of book, such as a math book.
April 19, 2008
2nd grade tour readaloud. great story about a boy who eats a thesaurus and starts spouting multiple words for the same idea. very cool pictures and sure to make schoolage kids to laugh.
June 2, 2015
A cute book that explains what a thesaurus is in a fun and memorable way.
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