Genre: Fiction

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Night Letters
by Palmyra LoMonaco
What is a night letter, and what might it say?

• Genre Fiction

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Vocabulary Strategy Compound Words
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PowerPoint created by Michelle Harding Fairhope
Elementary
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Words to Know

• blade
• budding
• dew
• fireflies
• flutter

nectar notepad patch scratchy
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flutter

• to flap the wings

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flutter

• can also mean
• to move with quick wavering or flapping motions

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patch

• a small piece of ground that is different from
  what surrounds it

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patch

• can also mean

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dew

• the moisture from the air that collects in small
  drops on cool surfaces during the night

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nectar

• sweet sap, or liquid, produced by a flower

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notepad

• a small book of blank or lined sheets of paper in
  which you write notes or things that you need to
  learn or remember

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fireflies

• small insects that give off flashes of light when
  they fly

 A firefly captured in Eastern Canada The top
picture is taken with a flash, the bottom only
with the self-emitted light.
Fireflies in the woods near Nuremberg, Germany
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blade

• a leaf of grass

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putting forth small swellings on a plant that
will grow into leaves, branches, or flowers

• budding

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• scratchy

rough uneven or ragged likely to scratch
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Excellent Work!