My grandsons know some words that their classmates don’t always understand. Part of the reason is tht I hve never talked down to them. I don’t change my words so they understand them. I speak and I then I explain if they don’t understand.
One of their favorite words is perspective. Let’s take a look at the actual definition. ” A mental view or outlook; The ability to perceive things in their actual interrelations or comparative importance; a way of regarding situations, facts, etc, and judging their relative importance”
After we check out the definitions we use the words for awhile and then we each write our own definition and put it in our family dictionary.
Pictures are one way we practiced with the word perspective. See the kitten. We each presented two perspectives of why the kitten looked so feisty. Are all kittens feisty?
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Would you like to know what our perceptions were?
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Would you like to know why we have a family dictionary?
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Would you like to know more about why words are important?
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