His teacher gives the class an assignment: to find the one word that will help them have their best year ever.
This engaging, fully illustrated fable follows Stevie, a young boy falling asleep on the first day of school. And once you know your word, what do you do with it? In One Word for Kids, bestselling author Jon Gordon―along with coauthors Dan Britton and Jimmy Page―asks these questions to children and adults of all ages, teaching an important life lesson in the process. How you find your word is just as important as the word itself. If you could choose only one word to help you have your best year ever, what would it be? Love? Fun? Believe? Brave? It’s probably different for everyone. Whichever activity is right for your family, keep vocabulary exercises and games light and fun and your child will be learning and growing her words without even realizing it.Additional Tools and Resources About the Bookįrom the authors who created the One Word movement, impacting schools, businesses, and sports teams around the world, comes a charming fable that can be read and shared by everyone. Keep a running tally to find your family’s biggest word nerd for the month. (A number of dictionary apps include a word of the day feature, which is a handy way to source words.) Reveal the true meaning of the word, awarding a point to the person who first correctly identified the meaning. Share a word of the day and have each family member share what they think the definition of the word is. Host a Family Word Competition at the dinner table. Take turns to create sentences using the word correctly and look for opportunities to use the word in conversation throughout the week. If he doesn't, you can tell him or ask him to look the word up in a children’s dictionary. Invite your child to choose a word from the jar at a regular time each week. For example, see an alternative for the word "chicken" in this sentence: “We’re having your favorite for dinner tonight - poultry!”Ĭreate a "Jar of Words" with small pieces of paper, each with an interesting word written upon it. Read through the message with your child and don’t be afraid to use less familiar words - the more you can expand her vocabulary over time, the better. Like my daughter's example shared above, use a whiteboard or chalkboard to write short messages for your child to discover. Young children benefit from the concrete experience of hearing and seeing words in relation to their actual context. Be a personal broadcaster, talking about your actions, the places you are visiting, and the things that you can see.
Provide lots of opportunity to converse with your little one - even before he can answer you with his own words. Below are some simple ideas for developing vocabulary across a range of age groups. And, they’re likely to find more ease in the overall journey of learning to read and write.įortunately, there are many ways parents can help children develop a broad vocabulary. They can learn to communicate their needs, wishes, and ideas. It was a wonderful way to engage her with words - whether they were fun, interesting, unusual, or even everyday words.Ĭhildren with a strong vocabulary to draw upon are better able to comprehend what they hear or read. Though she couldn’t yet read, she'd notice letters she was familiar with or ask, "Which word says 'cake'?" (or "bus" or "museum" and so on). The message was often a clue to what the day had in store, a countdown to an event, or a love note to let her know how wonderful she was.Įach morning, excitedly, she'd look for the new message. When my eldest was just a preschooler, we had great fun developing her interest in words with what we called our "magic message board." Each morning she'd wake to find a short message written on this board that lived on the front of our fridge.
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