I think what will work is to make the word cards only for new words we come across when I'm reading aloud to her. Right now I'm reading a book which she finds fascinating, but it's too advanced for her to read independently. She doesn't mind when I give her a quick definition of an unfamiliar word as I read to her, but she does mind if I stop reading to jot the word down! So I'm going to read with pencil in hand and just put a check-mark in the margin next to new words. Then later, during lesson time, we'll make word study cards for these words. And then we'll use them to review the new words periodically so that when she encounters these words in independent reading, she'll know them already. Along with new words from books I read to her, prefixes, suffixes, and roots will go on word cards.
She lights up when she's able to understand a word by "dissecting" it, or relating it to a word she already knows, so I think she'll actually enjoy making word study cards with my help and playing little quiz games with them.
I agree book reports are awful! Thank heavens, none of my elementary school teachers assigned book reports, and I had to write only a couple in high school, about books I chose myself. But I remember how loudly kids in other classes complained about having to write book reports!Statistics: Posted by kewukiah — Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:37 am
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