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Study the word SHIMMER:
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To shimmer is to shine with a light that seems to shake or move. And a shimmer is a light that seems to shake or move.
When the sun or the moon is up, it can make water shimmer.
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Figure skaters often pick shimmering costumes. The costume shimmers on the ice, adding to the skater's beauty and grace of movement. By the way, when something shimmers, you can call it "shimmering" to sound serious, or call it "shimmery" to sound playful.
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Metal things, and mirrors, and other things that catch light can shimmer. Your knife might shimmer as you chop vegetables.
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If you're lucky, you'll glimpse the shimmer of a dragonfly's wings as it flies.
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Make a flash card:
You can write your own definition and choose your own picture, or copy mine.
Term Definition Picture shimmer
to sparkle with wiggling light
Write your own sentence!
You can use either of the two ideas I'll suggest, or you can invent your own. Include as much detail as you can!
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Write a sentence with the word SHIMMER:
Remember: a shimmer is a lovely flash of light, and to shimmer is to give off little flashes of light.
Idea 1: "With shimmering scales, the (fish, snake, lizard, or crocodile) (does something)."
Idea 2: "As we (did something), (the sun or the moon) made the surface of the (pond, lake, river, or ocean) shimmer."
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