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Does this routine sound familiar?
It’s Monday: time to learn a new list of twenty vocabulary words. The children look up the words in the dictionary and copy the definitions. Tomorrow they will use the words in a sentence, and on Wednesday they will complete a fill-in-the-blank worksheet. On Friday there will be a quiz on the twenty words.
Then it will be time to start all over again the next Monday.
Although many of us were taught vocabulary words this way, even the most compliant kids groaned inwardly at this demotivating routine.
A large vocabulary is critical for reading comprehension, so you should include vocabulary development as part of your educational plans for your children. But you also want your efforts to be effective—and therein lies the problem. The list-on-Monday, test-on-Friday approach to teaching vocabulary simply isn’t effective.
Let’s take a look at what doesn’t work when building your child’s vocabulary.
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