Table 2: Word Wizard Selections
| Categories or Reasons for Word Selection | Examples |
| Don't know how to pronounce or read | fitzgolden; doubtfully; awkwardly; Fooz! Idwitz!; hypodermic; discipline schooner; inhospitable; durians; vacuum; Ballantyne; pandemonium; voracious; gawked; ecology; horizon |
| New Words: never seen or heard before | wirehaired dachshund; trembled; medallion; philosopher; muddled; tattered; baffled; velvet sky; logger head turtle; fluttering; lotus blossom; discouraged |
| Don't know the meaning of | Tweak; square shouldered; awkwardly; Toledo; domination; astonished; anatomically; delirious; enchanted; ablaze; congressman; scornfully; commissioner; nomads; verdict; monumental; ninnies; hypodermic; lateral lines; EPIRB; bulwark |
| Fun to say/sounds funny | Gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble crunch; d-d-dust bunnies; escaped lunatic; slob; cuckoo; Shut your pie holes; Wah-wah; It's not smart to show your hiney to a bear; Thornberry; discombobulated; gruffly; escaped lunatic |
| Focus on the author's craft/Style of writing | GA-RUNCH, CRRRUNNCHH, GA, RUM-RUM, GA-RUNCH!!!! (Neat
how
they put it) I couldn't put it better myself. (I like how they put it) Splash!!!!!!!!!! (...it was cool how they used all the exclamation marks) Mo-o-ore (...liked how it was printed) with...with... (It's cool how they wrote it) Flap and flutter These words made me hear the sounds birds make when they take off) Riting (They spelled it wrong) Got milk? (It makes no sense with what is going on in the story) nose twitching stomach-filling soup (...liked the way the author described the soup) fine feathers and feeling (...alliteration) |