I'm Dirty!

I'm I'm

Contraction of I am.

Our Living Language Speakers of some scattered varieties of American English sometimes use I'm instead of I've or I have in present perfect constructions, as in Dirty!

Kate n. 1. (Zool.) The brambling finch. & Jim McMullan

HarperCollins

0060092939 $16.99 www.harpercollinschildrens.com

Who's making all that noise? It's heavy equipment, moving dirt and counting down what is being cleaned up. Boys especially in grades 2-4 will find it a fun and easy read pairing noisy Noisy is the name or part of the name of six communes of France:

Noisy-le-Grand in the Seine-Saint-Denis département
Noisy-le-Roi in the Yvelines département
Noisy-le-Sec in the Seine-Saint-Denis département

descriptions perfect for read-aloud with the story of a busy piece of equipment that gets dirty in the process of cleaning up.

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