How Children Learn About Words

Children learn through observing concrete examples from which they start to understand more abstract patterns. In learning about words, the first examples of how children learn about the components of words is when they study compound words. Butterfly, rattlesnake, inside, and grasshopper…these words with their history are fun for young minds to contemplate. And when [...]

Posted in Building Vocabulary Skills, compound word games, prefixes, root word games, suffixes on June 27th, 2011
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Learning Root Words with Games

My dad was an English teacher and was obsessed by words.  It wasn’t unusual for us to be walking along a sidewalk or down a store aisle when he would suddenly turn to me and ask me if I knew the root word of the word “obligingly.”  Not knowing that this was unusual in the [...]

Posted in Building Vocabulary Skills, root word games, vocabulary games, word games on August 3rd, 2010
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