10 Ways to Build Vocabulary Word of the Day: Make Your Own Dictionary: Choose a New Word Each Day to Be the Word of Use a Notebook Or Journal to Make Your Own the Day

10 ways to build vocabulary Word of the Day: Make Your Own Dictionary: Choose a new word each day to be the word of Use a notebook or journal to make your own the day. Teach your child what it means. Use it dictionary. Draw pictures to help you 1 for them throughout the day and encourage 6 remember what the words mean instead of them to use it too! definitions.

Board Games: Describe it: Play board games that focus on using words such How many words can you think of to describe it? as Apples to Apples, Taboo, Blurt, Scattergories, While eating breakfast, lunch or dinner challenge or Boggle. Ask your child to use the words in a your kiddo to describe how the food tastes, feels, 2 smells or sounds using as many adjectives as they sentence. If they can’t, model it for them. 7 can.

Go Digital: Don’t Say it!: There are many different websites and mobile While riding in the car or sitting at home device applications (apps) that help kids practice designate a “no-no” word that you can’t say new vocabulary. Check out these: Flocabulary, for the day (for example, mom or go). 3 Tiny Hands First Words, Starfall, Endless Alphabet, 8 Instead of saying the word they must use a Peek-a-boo Barn, My PlayHome. synonym. Detective: Word Jar: Find a word in a book that you don’t know. Write Create a word jar of words that are SLP it down, use the dictionary to look up the meaning. tricky for them to understand. Choose - 4 Try using the clues from the story to figure it out 9 one word from the jar each week to before you read the definition. learn and use in conversation.

The Alphabet Game: Cut it Up: Give your child a category (ex. girl’s names, foods, Take an old newspaper or magazine and cut animals, etc.). Challenge them to the alphabet game. up words that are tricky to understand. Glue Go back and forth saying a word for each letter of them into a journal or on a piece of paper. the alphabet. A-alligator, B-bear, C-cat, D-dog, until 10 5 Look up the definitions and use them in a someone can’t think of anymore. sentence. CCC M.S., Kahlenberg, Deana By: Created