The absolute majority of my students would improve their grades dramatically and benefit a lot more from their studies if only they acquired the habit of looking up the words they don’t know in a dictionary. If they at least consulted a dictionary to understand the titles of the texts we read, that already would be hugely helpful.
Parents, do your children a huge favor. Whenever you are watching the TV or a movie and hear a complicated word, tell your child, “Do you know what this word means? Let’s look it up in the dictionary!” Make consulting a dictionary a regular practice, a part of your kid’s intellectual hygiene. You teach children to brush their teeth and change their underwear, right? So teach them that a dictionary is also a regular part of a human being’s life, just like a tooth-brush.
The world belongs to people with good vocabularies. And the sooner you start building yours up, the better.
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