For the second week, shift your attention to finding alternatives to the words your child uses everyday. These terms suggest ways to help your child define words that are unfamiliar. A new word is understood more fully if it can be related to a familiar word whose meaning is very similar or is the opposite. It is also the opposite of small, tiny, or insignificant. You can choose the words that are appropriate for your child.
Word games using synonyms and antonyms are also helpful.
You can give a familiar word and ask your child for one other word with the same or the opposite meaning. There are also many words that have the same sound, but different spellings and meanings. These are called homophones . Words that look alike but have different meanings are called homonyms . Search for similarities as a way of better understanding the differences that prefixes, suffixes, and inflections make.