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Hi all,
Sorry for top posting -thankfully this awesome forum seems far more patient with that..
Any suggestions on how to improve DD's vocabulary? websites? lists? programs etc?

DD7 reads a lot but i cant get her to say write down and research meanings of new words..
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated..
Wish i had discovered this great forum earlier :-|

Hi Shaangi,
Does your daughter need to write down and research meaning of new words? What's going on with her learning overall? All I have to do is uses new words and my son sucks them up like air, figuring out their meaning from content, at least pretty well. Anyway, Welcome!

One fun thing might be to make up a nonsense word and see what she thinks it could mean, to see how her reasoning is going, or ask her about words she has made up.

Best Wishes,
Grinity

My dd 7 loves Freerice for vocabulary. Check it out, it's quite fun! www.freerice.com

I've read good things about wordly wise. Vocabulary cartoons could also be a good match.

I agree that talking and books are the best source of new words.

LMom

DS 11 loves "Caesar's English" that he's learning in Middle School for vocabulary building. They work on roots of words. He says I need to include it in DS 9's IEP for next year. It may not be the right level for your DD7, or something she'd be willing to do independent of school, but you might look into it.

My son, who hated writing and didn't particularly like looking up words in a regular dictionary, loved looking up words in his Franklin Merriam-Webster electronic dictionary. He could go to church and look up any words the preacher used that he didn't know the exact meaning of and when I read classic books to him containing some words that I wasn't even sure of the exact meaning, he would ask me what they meant and then check it out with his electronic dictionary. He could also play hangman on it and it could also be used as a calculator. I think typing in the word also helped him learn to spell correctly.

But the Vocabulary Cartoon books probably helped him the most when he was seven. After he finished reading all of them he started making up his own funny mnemonics and he really enjoyed doing this.

He likes freerice.com also. If he misses a word he remembers the correct definition the next time he sees it.