PICKING UP NEW WORDS

Hey Kids, welcome back!

If you keep following the weekly blogs, you’ll soon be able to incorporate a lot of skills into your writing. It will help you at school, but also for your general confidence and writing outside of school. You do write outside of school, right? Just for the fun of it? Because you like it? Or love it?

Did you notice the word incorporate in the first paragraph?

You either:

1) tripped over it

2) glossed over it

3) ignored it

4) or understood it just fine

Don’t be afraid of big words or new words.

Here are a few examples to help you understand what incorporate means and how to use it.

At school your friends might give you 8 or 10 ideas to use in a project. You can incorporate the ones that you like. The ones that you don’t like, just ignore.

After taking a vegan cooking class, my father has decided to incorporate more vegetables into our diet.

Incorporate can also be used like this:

In order to run a business legally, I need to incorporate it. So tomorrow I’m going to visit the appropriate government department, and I’m going to register my company.

Do you know what the best way is to learn a new word?

Use it!

Use it as often as you can until you are really comfortable with it. Use it when you speak to people, use it in your school writing, use it in your home writing projects (because I’m sure you write at home too!).

Here’s what I want you to do now. Pick up a book or a newspaper in the house, skim quickly, and choose 3 words that look interesting, whose meanings you’re not sure of, and that you would like to work with this week.

Get a notebook and write them down. Now either look them up or ask an adult or older sibling for help. Write down how you can use the words. For instance, are they for use in a dentist’s office, in a kitchen, or in another context?

Write down three fun sentences. Don’t make them lazy sentences. You’re your own teacher.

So if you write down:

Today I learnt the word “conjuror”.

That doesn’t help anyone, does it?

Use the words as often as you can. Write a new sentence for them each day for a week. What is 3 x 7? That’s right, you’ll have 21 sentences by the end of the week.

You’ll be so good, you’ll know those words backwards and forwards.

Use them when you talk to people. Use them in your writing at school.

Write me back in the comments and tell me what your 3 new words were.

And if you like the idea, do the same next week. And the next week. And the next.

What’s 3 x 52?

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