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, 14 years ago→Make a list of your own favourite words together and read them aloud. Ask the children to compile their own lists and ask other people what their favourite words are and write them down.
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'''Favourite Words''' | '''Favourite Words''' | ||
* Make a list of your own favourite words together and read them aloud. Ask the children to compile their own lists and ask other people what their favourite words are and write them down. | |||
Get a dictionary and ask children to look through it and find words they like the sound of. Ask them to write them down and ask themselves why they like them. What is it that attracts them to the word? | * Get a dictionary and ask children to look through it and find words they like the sound of. Ask them to write them down and ask themselves why they like them. What is it that attracts them to the word? | ||
* Make up your own class dictionary by making up five words a day – puddlewonderfull, squongey skwiff and kerfuddle. Make up meanings for the new words. | |||
* Ask children to think about favourite characters and their names and create lists of names for different types of characters. | |||
* Create list poems of place names/pop songs/cars. | |||
= Kennings = | |||
= A kenning is a compound figurative or phrase that aims to replace the noun. It consists of two words that describe the noun. Kennings originate from the Anglo Saxon “Norse” spoken by Vikings and slowly integrated within English. Very simply, it is a way of describing something indirectly, like a metaphor or simile, and making kennings are a great way to introduce children to figurative speech. Ask children to create their own kennings as a list and for others to guess what they are describing. = | = A kenning is a compound figurative or phrase that aims to replace the noun. It consists of two words that describe the noun. Kennings originate from the Anglo Saxon “Norse” spoken by Vikings and slowly integrated within English. Very simply, it is a way of describing something indirectly, like a metaphor or simile, and making kennings are a great way to introduce children to figurative speech. Ask children to create their own kennings as a list and for others to guess what they are describing. = | ||
E.g. ''What am I?'' (an orange) | E.g. ''What am I?'' (an orange) | ||
