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Pants, shirt, plates, cups and a shoe.) and write these words on index cards
or paper. Ask your child to put these items into categories. This will help
your child visualize putting words together that have something in common.
The clothing words would go together and the dish words would go together.
(pg. 264)
7. Try to plan an outing with your child that will incorporate the vocab words they
have been working on. By taking your child out of the house for learning it
makes the experience more enjoyable, and more motivating for them. (pg.
258)
8. A strategy for helping your child learn the definitions of their spelling words not
just the spelling, create a jeopardy game that gives the child the definitions
and they have to announce the word. This too makes the experience
enjoyable and if they play against a sibling it will motivate them to want to
learn the spelling and the meaning. (pg. 275)
9. Another motivating way to get your child into vocabulary, play a game of
scrabble or boggle with them. Any word that they do not know, have them
write it down and after the game have your child look up the words. This will
make it fun, and it is a chance for you and your child to spend time together
and communicate. (pg. 275)
10.
After a few weeks of collecting vocabulary words and their definitions, have
your child make a My Vocabulary Dictionary. This will allow your child to
refer to the words whenever he/she feels they want to use the words and
they will know the correct context of the words as well. (pg. 273)