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Children can still laugh and enjoy the general inferred message of a book without having grasped the harder vocabulary. I thought this thread is asking for methods to improving vocabulary? Merely guessing and assuming will not help, in the exam using one’s power of deduction should be the last resort where vocabulary is weak. I second the person who suggested the Kindle with wordwise available on some books, it will also track the words your child has looked up in the dictionary through the automatically generated flashcards. This way you can also spot check them easily, if you do not want to read the whole book. My daughter's English is very strong, consistently she gets 100%, however, I can still catch her out on the words she has just skimmed over while reading in a split second. Unfortunately, I do not have the discipline to check her enough.
We have paperbacks spilling out of our shelves it's not until after the selective test (which we didn’t really prepare for), that I have rediscovered the power of a kindle. But not until I have regrettably purchased even more HS paperbacks, despite that we have had the paperwhite kindle for at least 3-4 years. Alas, I have a very flawed and lenient parenting style so I just bought books because she "preferred" hardcopies. Parents who disregard the kindle suggestions so quickly on this forum, should try and learn from my mistake, rote learning can help, but do not underestimate the power of osmosis, which is pretty much what wordwise on a kindle is like, for lack of a better analogy.
It is not going to be the preferred method of your children, but making them read on the kindle, will help learning vocab much easier. Because let’s face it, kids are inherently lazy, they will always choose the most easy and fun way and if they don’t, it’s possibly out of fear of repercussions: but they shouldn’t feel any fear while reading (unless it’s Stephen King or somethinng). For a child to actually enjoy reading, they would need to feel completely relaxed and be in their uninhibited comfort zone. Flipping through a dictionary or even stopping to google impedes on their journey the story is taking them. Usually they want to just curl up somewhere and let their imagination travel with their book. This is why wordwise on a kindle helps, it automatically adds some key words on the harder vocabulary depending on your child’s age to help them understand the word without having to tap on it for the dictionary. Then, it is up to them to choose if they want tap on the word or not. It sounds so simple but it really makes all the difference, essentially the one between your child learning a new word naturally or not, basically.
In yr1 & 2, I used to ask my daughter to write the meaning of words she assumed, then look them up after she’s finished reading and write the real definition next to her guess. Tried to make her learn to appreciate how wildly different her made up definitions were. That's an exercise I think all could benefit from, it will look that much sillier on paper, rather than just spoken out loud and will bring a giggle when they look back on their logs.
But, did it stop her from this guessing habit? haha...no, because bad habits die hard unfortunately. So this thread has reminded me to start making her do this again, except this time she’s going to argue and whinge like the tween she is but I’m going to get all Miss Trunchbull up in her face now, because Yr 7 is happening real soon. Anyway, I'm not here to offend anyone, just really wanted to provide you with my regrets on my failed kindle usage, but never again! She’s currently reading a free textbook on "The Ethics of Cybersecurity"  when she struggles to sleep, she says it’s like reading another language. My thoughts are - well if you can't sleep when you're meant to, then trying to decipher technical jargon at 11 will do the trick. 
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大头烘焙－－泡芙 (2009-7-10) datou2z 
发表于 2020-10-1 20:40
