Finn Puffin searches for the Perfect Words or Wow Words.  So we wanted to have a place in the students’ interactive notebooks to keep track of some of these words.  When you open Finn’s Beak there is a place for Wow Words.  

Students love to add Wow Words in Finn’s Beak.  They then utilize this page when writing in their journals or crafting a story.  The beak becomes a mini word wall.

Many variations can be implemented.  The 2nd Grade team at York is going to use it as a thesaurus to help build vocabulary.  Each month they will select an overused word like great.  They plan on writing great on the front of the beak and placing more powerful words for great on the inside of the beak.  When students use great orally or in their writing you just might here a 2nd Grade teacher say, “Show me the beak!”