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Step into a story that moves like the seasons in "Waiting for Murphy"! This interactive PowerPoint slideshow is designed in a book-like format for whole group read alouds. View it on your classroom screen or on a tablet during carpet time. It follows a quiet, powerful connection between the narrator and a visiting squirrel named Murphy - who appears again and again as the year unfolds. Across the seasons, students don't just read a story...they experience figurative language in motion. -

Students explore synonyms and shades of meaning by collecting synonyms for "big" and "small" from the story "Mirn the Bird". Students sort the words by intensity and extend by using them in a short piece of writing. This activity can also be used as a vocabulary building activity without the story.