Farrar Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 I'm looking for something simple for vocabulary. My kids are in first grade. Right now, we just do a word a day and I really like that. What I don't like is our word a day book. It's cute enough, but the words are mostly too easy. The same company makes one for 2nd and 3rd grade and I could try that but I don't know if I trust them to pick good words if they don't realize that first graders pretty much all know the word "wagon." Or I could make my own, but that just smacks of effort. I liked having a quick daily thing to do where we could just flip it and get a new word with a little illustration all prepared and it could sit out for them to see all day. Anyone know of something like that appropriate for early elementary school? I don't want a whole curriculum - more like a word a day calendar for kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 How about an actual word a day calandar? I can't imagine that there are words in a word a day calandar that a six year old shouldn't know. My 5 year old is currently rockin the word "penultimate." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted December 18, 2010 Author Share Posted December 18, 2010 Yeah, I looked and didn't see any that were for kids. They were more studying for the SAT type words. They probably need something a little more in between. Though penultimate is a good word to know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 I don't know but you could just select a word a day from your reading. Whatever you read aloud to them, when there's a word they don't know/recognize, make the first one that comes up their vocabulary word that day (or the next day if you read at night, or whatever). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahamamama Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 http://www.evan-moor.com/Product.aspx?ClassID=188&CurriculumID=3&SeriesID=3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 I like the idea of having a word list already so we encounter new words that I wouldn't think to teach the kids otherwise. Also, because I'm lazy and don't want to have to think about it too much. Yeah, I know Wordly Wise is out there. I had not seen the Evan-Moor Word a Day curriculum. It looks pretty simple, but I don't really want to add to our pile of workbooky things. It already feels big enough to me. I really like what we have conceptually - a little stand up flipbook of words with cute pictures to illustrate them. I just think the actual word list they drew from is really lame. But it may be that I have to make something myself. By the way, I really like the word lists that go along with both the PBS shows WordGirl (awesome show) and Martha Speaks (bleh show). Before I bought the little cheap flipbook we have now, I thought about making our own with those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 Okay, another search turned up this vocabulary cartoon of the day book, which might be okay... though I looked at that word list and again I'm a little baffled. Really, are there 2nd and 3rd graders who don't know the word "kitchen" or "helmet" or "castle"?:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tricia Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 I love Robinson Curriculum for vocabulary. I don't use the RC totally for my curriculum but I do use the vocabulary. It comes with about 6 pages of worksheets connected to the words which gives my kids some great exposure to words in order of readiness. I wouldn't purchase the curriculum just for that though. I've also simply used the McGuffey Speller for the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navneet_20us Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Can you please post a link to the books you mentioned, or exact book name by the author :Robinson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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