The Build Vocabulary website has an amazing vocabulary blog.  It's one of my favorite subscriptions.

It can if it is tuned to PBS this fall!  In an exciting development, The Public Broadcasting Service is bringing Susan Meddaugh’s "Martha" book series to life in order to build young children’s vocabulary skills.  In the popular books, Martha the dog swallows some Alphabet Soup and begins to speak, and hilarious hijinks ensue.

In this fall’s new animated adaptation of the books, Meddaugh’s Martha character will talk her way through two stories in every show episode.  According to the Martha Speaks website on pbskids.org, the goal of the show is to "increase oral vocabulary, the words we use when we talk."  The hope is that by teaching kids to recognize new words when they hear them, they will also more easily recognize them when they read those same words.  When a new reader’s oral vocabulary is limited, it is more difficult to make sense of words when attempting to sound them out.

Each episode of "Martha Speaks" will have a theme.  PBS.org suggests that parents watch with their child and help them locate every word that fits with the theme of the show.  Making connections between words in categories is one of the key ways of building vocabulary.  They also suggest using some of the words from the show in your future conversations with your child, so that they continue to hear the words in context.

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