Adjectives give our language richness and life.  Adjectives create description that makes our reading, speaking and writing come alive.  Children love to see our eyes wide and our minds working as they describe something to us in writing or in speech.  Give your children the great gift of words… words, words, and more words.  Give your children 56 Adjectives to [...]

Encouraging children to become comfortable with words, especially new words, is all about repetition.  Explaining a word’s definition is a great start, but using words is what makes them sink in.  Every day.  Just as a quotidian morning meal is essential to your children’s health and sustained energy, so too is the quotidian use of interesting words/language in the presence [...]

I may be run out of town for suggesting what I’m about to suggest, but as a retired English/Reading teacher, Mom of 4 and Grandma to 9, sometimes kids like words just because they sound awesome… even words that they may never, ever use… and this is OK! Did I just write that? It’s true.  So today, I’m suggesting 2 [...]

Oh, boy!  What would a list of 56 Adjectives be without a couple of WORDS that begin with the letter O?  Well, to begin with, kind of ordinary.  So… let’s get to it: 1.  obstinate -  difficult to manage or subdue; unwilling to listen or yield. What to love about this word? obstinate has lots of wonderful synonym friends (stubborn, [...]

In our search for 56 Adjectives in 28 Days, (awesome Adjectives, by the way) today we’re coming up to numbers 27 and 28. Today, your children will have 28 incredibly descriptive words to walk around with, speak with, write with, have fun with. Let’s take a couple of seconds to marvel at the adjectives we’ve already met.  These words are [...]

Think for a second about this question -  Which words do kids like best? Kids like new words.  Kids like BIG words.  But kids especially like words that describe awful things… bad things.  Bad smells and bad people fall into the latter category.  So on our quest for 56 Adjectives, let’s toss in a couple of awesome adjectives that describe [...]

Words.  Words.  Words. Children love words.  Children especially love words they’ve never heard before, and these are the ones that generally pique their interest the most.  Today’s 2 Adjectives are words that children will definitely catch the attention of your children, both in meaning and pronunciation: 1.  lackadaisical – lacking liveliness or interest; resembling one who is close to crying. [...]

We’re on a mission for adjectives… 56 adjectives, to be exact! Adjectives add dimension, depth, color, description and definition to writing, speaking, reading.  Children absorb adjectives because adjectives give them very clear mental pictures.  Mental pictures create the network for language, for learning and for gaining knowledge.  So… the more words that children are exposed to, the more mental pictures [...]

Some words just sound awesome.  Today’s 2 Adjectives are words, I think, that sound awesome.  Call me jubilant for words… but I just can’t help myself.  I’m shouting great joy for jubilant and its friend, jocular. Hold me back, folks! 1.  jocular -  a) humorous, merry, comical, funny;  b) of persons and their dispositions; speaking or acting in merriment. What [...]

DAY 40?! We’re already on Day 40 of 2011?!  If you’ve been following along with my 365 Days of Literacy for Kids,  you will,  today, have shared 31 beautiful poems with your children… and introduced them to 16 AWESOME ADJECTIVES!  Keep up the good work! Let’s keep this LITERACY PARTY going with 2 more ADJECTIVES.  Today’s 2 Adjectives most certainly [...]