Parents can show how words, that look and sound the same, can have different meanings. Parents can show children how words help you guess what is going to happen. Children need to be taught to use context to discover the meaning of words or multiple meanings or differences in shades of meaning. Parents can help by highlighting these features to children. Parents can replace the occasional word in a familiar story with a more complex word and see if the child can figure out what it means.
Parents can help children to use context to figure out word meanings in everyday situations.
She is walking briskly. Parents can teach alternate meanings of words through word games in which you try to come up with as many meanings as possible for words. For example, the word 'rock' can mean to 'rock in a chair', 'rock music', 'rock that you throw', or 'rock hard'. Parents may capitalize on children's humor for teaching multiple meanings. Joke and riddle books may be used.