May

9

Word Girl: Making vocabulary fun

Filed Under English 

I just stumbled across a site by PBS TV. On their kids website, PBS Kids (okay, it’s not a really original name), they have a section called Word Girl.

Word Girl is a young heroine fighting all sorts of nasty villians who shoot goop and throw sausages at people. Those villians seem a bit odd, but they’re all done in an over the top Saturday-morning-style cartoon that makes the campiness seem fun. In order to fight villians, there are all sorts of activities where you have to pick the word to describe Word Girl’s next action. If you pick the incorrect one, something goes wrong (usually something silly) and you get another chance. If you pick the right one, Word Girl defeats the nasty villian.

This site would probably work well with mid to upper elementary. It has some great and really unusual words that kids at that age likely won’t know, but could easily use. It’s just silly enough to be fun, and just serious enough to educationally useful.

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