DIRECTIONS: Every book somebody reads to you. It can be much harder than what you read yourself.
1Log each book somebody reads you
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2Turn over: collect new words
Title
Who wrote it
Finished?
The best bit, or a word you had never heard
Grown-up: keep reading aloud after they can read. Until
about eleven, listening runs years ahead of reading, and book words are where vocabulary comes from.
Words I Met First in a Book
Any book · The other half of the list
DIRECTIONS: Heard a word in a read-aloud that you never heard before? Write it here.
Grown-up: don't stop the story. Explain it in four words,
keep reading, write it down after.
The word
The book it was in
What you think it means
Come back in a month. How many of these are ordinary now?