How to Move Words From Passive Vocabulary

The two best things to help your kids become good writers and speakers is to read aloud a lot, memorize poetry. Memorizing poetry or prose that includes a broader range of vocabulary moves words from yeah, I kind of know what it means if I see it to I can say this word because I've been reciting poems that include that. "I just encourage everyone very, very strongly to do memorization," he says.

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