Use some Synonyms to better your speech! No more boring words! Click Here.
Fun Logic Games can be found HERE.
While playing the games with your child, ask them logic based questions like "What will happen if we hit the bomb?" or "What happens if I make it through the maze?" Model appropriate answers to your child and then show them the cause and effect through game play. Enjoy!
Great Language Building Ideas
*Want your child to tell you more than "Fine" when you ask how their day was? Try some of these question forms.
Try to make some Inferences from the National Geographic Picture of The Day Here.
Making an inference means to take the knowledge you already have and applying it to new pictures or texts. What conclusions can you draw from the picture based on information you know from your life? Talk with your child about the inferences you can make. Ask what inferences, or connections, they can make with the picture.
Main Ideas in Current Events
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Go to http://tweentribune.com/junior to find a current events article related to things YOUR interested in. Read it with a parent and identify the main idea to the article. Was there a problem? Was there a solution? I would love for you to come back and tell me about the interesting articles you read! Everyday there are new articles to choose from.
Figurative Language
Here is a great site with a list of phrasal verbs and what they mean. Try some practice with your child telling you what they mean and then trying to use them appropriately within a context.
This poster was a sight for sore eyes! Remember the old Operation Game? Here is a fun print out to review commond idioms we use referring to the human body based upon the old gameboard. If you have the game, practice using some of these idioms correctly with your child while playing the game!
This poster was a sight for sore eyes! Remember the old Operation Game? Here is a fun print out to review commond idioms we use referring to the human body based upon the old gameboard. If you have the game, practice using some of these idioms correctly with your child while playing the game!
Vocabulary Practice
This article helps explain the benefit of using mnemonic devices and strategies when learning new vocabulary.
http://www.academypublication.com/issues/past/jltr/vol02/01/23.pdf
Try this worksheet when reviewing classroom vocabulary with your child, whether it be science, social studies, math, or language arts. It is called a graphic organizer that will help them review and understand new vocabulary.
Below find graphic organizers to help with science vocabulary for 5th grade.
5th Grade Science Vocabulary websites
5th graders!!! Here's a helpful website to review vertebrates and help you complete the graphic organizer from above. click here. Talk with your child about what the concept of CLASSIFICATION means. A synonym for this word could be category.
4th Grade Science Vocabulary
4th Grade Solar System Vocabulary Fun! Click here for a vocabulary Game.
Click Here for a fun Solar System Word Search. Review the definition as you find the words.
Click Here for Interactive Space Facts reading short paragraphs.
Click Here for National Geographic Science Review fun.
Click Here for a fun Solar System Word Search. Review the definition as you find the words.
Click Here for Interactive Space Facts reading short paragraphs.
Click Here for National Geographic Science Review fun.
Here is a list of Great Language Apps for your iPad, iTouch, or Smartphone
1) Picture the Sentence by Hamaguchi. Good for syntax, auditory memory, and language comprehension.
2) What's in the Bag by Hamaguchi at only .99! Same concept as the popular Headbanz game where you ask questions to guess the hidden object.
3) Talk about it Objects by Hamaguchi. Good for object function, language comphrehension, expressive language, and vocabulary. Higher level.
4) Social Skill Builder. Excellent use of video modeling to teach pragmatic and social language skills. There is a lite version to try first.
2) What's in the Bag by Hamaguchi at only .99! Same concept as the popular Headbanz game where you ask questions to guess the hidden object.
3) Talk about it Objects by Hamaguchi. Good for object function, language comphrehension, expressive language, and vocabulary. Higher level.
4) Social Skill Builder. Excellent use of video modeling to teach pragmatic and social language skills. There is a lite version to try first.