Words can be used to describe other words. Everyone likes to play with words and use words to talk about other words.
What you'll need:
* Paper and pencil.
What to do:
* Choose a word such as vehicle and write it in the center of a sheet of paper. Then ask your child to think of other words that tell more about the word vehicle. Children might think about types of vehicles (buses, cars, trucks, boats), uses for vehicles (transportation, recreation), and words describing how vehicles look and move (sturdy, fast, dangerous).
Then ask your child to write the words on the sheet and connect them to the main word vehicle. This will show your child how the words are linked ot the main word and form a "word web."
READ*WRITE*NOW Activities for Reading and Writing Fun - May 1997
