I love learning new words and exposing my children to great vocabulary, and this is really easy to do if reading together is an activity you enjoy regularly. This is especially easy to do when reading Lemony Snicket’s book, 13 Words. I really like this book, as is evident by the number of times I have checked it out from my library.
First of all, the story lists the 13 words that will be introduced on the back cover and the inside cover. Some of the words are common knowledge, such as bird, cake, dog, busy and so forth. The fun part is the words that are not such common knowledge are used repeatedly throughout the story making it a cinch to remember the meaning of these words.
I recently read this story to my niece, and boy did we have fun with the word panache and haberdashery. We made up silly sentences for her to say to her mom using her new words. Anything that is fun and engages children is pretty much guaranteed to produce results. I always have fun reading this book, which transfers over to my kids having fun hearing it. My love of exciting new vocabulary words has definitely gotten my kids excited as well. Just yesterday my 6 year old began to tell me why she is not a hypocrite. We didn’t learn that word in this book, but we did learn it reading a book.
If you want to have some fun reading to your children and make it count by learning new words at the same time, check out 13 Words. I don’t think you will be disappointed. Now my next goal is to write a book in this style that is all my own. I will keep you posted!!!
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