Personal Dictionary

 

Today's Snack: Enjoy a snack pack of peaches with a glass of cranberry juice for sweetness and tang. Peachy keen!

 

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Today's Supplies:

Spiral notebook | No. 2 pencil

 

 

 

Here's a fun activity for a couple of Book Buddies: the older one can help the younger one create a Personal Dictionary.

 

Take a spiral notebook that has at least 26 pages. Label each page at the top with a letter of the alphabet, beginning with "A." Keep this notebook in your Book Buddy Box, and add to it as you go.

 

Now, as you read your books during Book Buddy time, when one of the buddies likes a word in the text, the older buddy can write it on the corresponding page in the Personal Dictionary.

 

The older buddy can use this opportunity for modeling good handwriting, and the younger buddy can watch the word come together with proper handwriting strokes onto the page.

 

Shoot for adding 10 or more words to the Personal Dictionary each Book Buddy session. Read over the list whenever you have time during your buddy sessions.

 

Besides words noticed in the books read during your time together, each of you might think of interesting words during your time apart, to share and then record.

 

They can be words in other books, words overheard in conversation, words on signs, words from songs . . . words from wherever!

 

By the end of the school year or summer session, the Book Buddies should have hundreds of words in the Personal Dictionary. It will be a helpful tool that the younger buddy can keep and continue to add words to for as long as he or she wants.