Topic to talk about for 10 minutes
Monday
Gather
What does gather mean? How would you gather? Types of things you can
gather? E.g.
squirrels gathering acorns; gathering money for charity.
Tuesday
Obsess
Being obsessed with sports, a band, other things?
Wednesday
Repeat
Doing something again, saying something again, having to repeat yourself. Who
has to repeat? Why?
Thursday
Hilarious
Something extremely funny, what things do you find very funny?
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Ideas for practicing the words
When?
Practice
any time you have when you can talk together with your child, this might be during
homework time, at dinnertime, in the car or when on a walk or a set time to talk 1:1 with your child..
Remember to try to
use this new word lots of times with your child so they can hear it repeatedly.
How?
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Stress or emphasise the new word when you are chatting
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Ask your child to explain what the word means to you
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Explain the new
word to them
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Give them examples of words that mean the same thing or the word in a sentence
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Ask them to give you an example or talk about the word
Practice could look something like this:
Target Word = Hilarious
“Your new word today is
‘
hilarious’, I wonder what that
means?
“I don’t know… does it mean
something fun?”
“It means when something is very
funny,
like when someone tells an
extremely funny story, you could say-
‘that was hilarious’! Do you
remember the movie ‘Shrek’ that was
hilarious because it was so funny.
Let’s try to think of hilarious
things…”
“I think Tommy is hilarious
because he always tells
jokes and
makes me laugh!”
“Well done, that was a great example of
someone hilarious, let’s think of some
more…”
