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RA, RF, great book for teaching vocabulary words, in a way that's not intimidating to younger students and relates to real life. By author Jamie Lee Curtis, she concludes her theme with the biggest word of all LOVE.

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UDL#2.1 clarifying vocabulary.
ESOL#1 asking questions, #11 vocabulary words, #20 making clarifications, #22 giving extra wait time for responses.

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This RF. This book is great for RA for kindergarten. The book teaches higher vocabulary for younger children. The author applies difficult words to real-life situations. Educators can teach the vocabulary words while reading the book. https://www.teachingbooks.net/clp.cgi?master_id=14503&lf_id=9 This link provides multi-leveled lessons.

Big Words for Little People is a fun RF book to use as both a RA and PR. This book can enhance students‘ vocabulary because it is full of new big words! After performing a RA or having PR, students can pair up and use this synonym sheet (https://www.lessonplanet.com/teachers/big-words-for-little-people)to compare the words within the book, to words they previously knew; which will have them activate their background knowledge.

“I know some Big Words. I‘ll teach them to you. Although you are small, you can use Big Words too.” The New York Times best-selling team of Curtis and Cornell have brought us an RF, eye-catching, picture book that celebrates words; teaching kids that they shouldn‘t be afraid of big words. The illustrations perfectly align with the vocabulary to help emerging readers comprehend what is going on while portraying events that students can relate to.

I chose this book because the illustrations capture my attention. I love the pictures and the message at the end. Also, this book teaches vocabulary to younger students. I will be implementing this book in my future classroom📚

I was initially drawn to the colorful illustrations. Once I read through, I was pleasantly surprised at the celebration of words and the way in which it went about introducing new words to young readers. The content speaks to experiences that many of us can relate to. And at the end, reminding us of the biggest word of all - LOVE.

I have a severe case of abibliophilia! 📚📚📚📚📚

Big Words for Little People by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell promotes advanced vocabulary and opens up new doors for children. The illustrations help paint a picture that is relatable for kids to help them understand. UDL 2.1 and 3.3 are in this book because if helps clarify vocabulary and students visualize so they can better comprehend the text. https://youtu.be/S1y_ppKRXf8 is a terrific video of Jamie Lee Curtis speaking about her book.

Big Words for Little People is a realistic-fiction book written by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell. This #1 New York Times best-selling team helps little people communicate in a big person's world. From big words such as “impossible“, “consequence“, and “privacy“ to shorter words that hold a bigger meaning within such as “love“ and “family. This book would be a great read-aloud choice as it helps build students' vocabulary!

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Written by Jamie Lee Curtis and Illustrated by Laura Cornell. This RF selection teaches young children in a story-telling and rhyming fashion. The story illuminates big words that children may hear but not quite understand in everyday conversations. Each page consists of its own story with one or two “big“ words. #ucflae3414su20

The book is “Big Words for Little People”. The author is Jamie Lee Curtis and the illustrations are by Laura Cornell. This book was a great read and so imaginative. The illustrations jumped off the page and were very fun. It was perfect for grades K-2. https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/sharon-taylor/strategies-teaching... UDL: clarify vocab and symbols. ESOL: teach questioning for clarification. #ucfchildrenlit

In this book, many new words are brought up for the kids to learn.It‘s a great book for RA and you can even get the students involved. In the activity linked students can create online flash cards to learn these words. http://www.readwritethink.org/resources/resource-print.html?id=30926&tab=3
The best EL strategy for this is to focus on comprehension and you can do so with the activity.
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This RF, picture book is absolutely perfect for a RA and would be excellent in any classroom library.

The publisher has a helpful teaching guide under “resources”.
https://www.harpercollins.com/9780061127595/big-words-for-little-people/

This resource meets UDL 2.1 clarify vocabulary words and symbols, and EL 11 place language in meaningful context. Children are learning the definitions of each new word in context in the book. #UCFLAE3414SP20

This RF book packed with big words will be a great book for elementary students to get excited about learning new words! The theme of this book is all about big words children hear and what they mean, containing words like celebrate and consequence. This book is great for R.A., and would be great help to a teacher when finding vocabulary for a concept sort!

The book Big Words for Little People is a wonderful book that exposes students to new and bigger words. This book is perfect for a teacher who wants to begin a word wall or for students to practice defying vocabulary terms. The Universal Design for this book would be (2.1) Clarifying vocabulary and symbols.

This NF book by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell is about helping little people (children) learn big words for big people (adults) to help connect everyone together. This is such a cute book that teachers can use as a RA since there are such big words a teacher will need to guide the students through the book. #ucflae3414f19

Big Words for Little People by Jamia Lee Curtis is such a fun RF to do a RA in your classroom with. Not only does this book also show a hint of diversity but it also introduces new big unknown words. UDL 2.1 would be great to focus on the vocabulary. ESOL strategies 20 to highlight the new vocabulary and make sure they are able to understand the new words and what they mean clearly! #UCFLAE3414F19

Big Words for Little People by Jamie Lee Curtis, illustrated by Laura Cornell is a great MF story for a read aloud. The story is about big words that little people (children) may not know. There are words like disgusting, privacy, and corporate that children may have heard before but not really understood what it meant. #UCFLAE3414F19

Big Words for Little People by Jamie Lee Curtis and illustrator is Laura Cornell. The genre of this book is RF. I used this book for my TeachLive Lesson and it was great! The focus of the book is to teach big or new vocabulary words such as privacy, consequence or irate. This book would be a great RA or S for students when teaching new vocabulary. An ESOL strategy would be 5 which teaches technical vocabulary supporting key concepts.

This P book, Big Words for Little People written by Jamie Lee Curtis and illustrated by Laura Cornell, would be best utilized in a RA in a large group. This book is a fun way to introduce higher level vocabulary words to younger students. There are great visuals and fun definitions to make words understood for “little people.” Teachers may use the EL strategy 17, providing contextual support through audio, visuals, models, demonstrations, realia,

4 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟The duo has done it again. This book is like a dictionary only it has rhyming good fun. Sometimes as adults we use big words and forget that littles may not understand them. This book does a great job of defining words kids might hear everyday such as patience, inappropriate, and privacy.

#lae3414sp19 This RF book by Jaime Lee Curtis is a great way of teaching new vocabulary for younger students. The book does a great job of giving applicable examples of the words that students can actually relate to which helps keep students engaged. And the ending is the cutest! I would recommend using this book for a RA. It is a great way to introduce vocabulary!

Big Words for Little People by Jamie Lee Curtis is a fictional text. This book is great for primary grades because it is a fun way to educate them on more complex words. This book allows for students to see just how fun it is to be able to use big words. A few large words taught included “consequence”, “stupendous”, and “privacy.” An ESOL strategy I would use for this book would be to simplify my speech by making it slower and redundant.

“I know some bigs words, I‘ll teach them to you. Although you are small, you can use big words too!” Big Words for Little People is a RF picture book written by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell. This book is great for students between the ages of 4 and 8 and helps teach young readers learn big words like privacy, impossible, and consequence. This is great for RA, especially when students have someone to demonstrate how to say the big words.

Big Words for Little People is an amazing (RF) book to use as a RA. It‘s written and illustrated by the number 1 national bestselling team, Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell. Children are able to relate to everyday life throughout this book, but also learning a new vocabulary word to go along with it! Some amazing words in this book are: persevere, stupendous, irate, and patience. Read to find out more😊 UDL principles that fit this book are

Big Words for Little People (RF) is a great book to use as an interactive RA. This book travels through a series of big words and explains what each of them mean through little real life incidents. Jamie Lee Curtis does a great job with connecting strong vocabulary words like cooperate, respect, considerate and patience to life lessons that children need to know. The book takes you through things that happen as a family.

NY Times best seller RF picture B. Story about learning big words and meanings. USES empowering words, promotes positivity. Great colorful pictures. TS-RA,S. https://www.harpercollins.com/9780061127595/big-words-for-little-people/ #LAE3414sp19

Big Words for Little People by Jamie Lee Curtis a RF book. Great book for RA . Love the illustrations. Great way for student to learn new vocabulary words. After reading I would add more vocabulary words.

Big Words for Little People by Jamie Lee Curtis a (RF) book that takes you through using some big words in the proper way! Words include “Privacy”, “impossible”, consequence”, and “cooperate”! This would be a great (RA) book to introduce a vocabulary routine, or a phonics lesson on sounding out “big” words. This is a great book to use with EL students by (11) placing language in a meaningful context.