Yes, you can go holiday shopping and build your child’s vocabulary --  all at the same time. Mary E. Curtis, a professor of education and director at Lesley University and Ann Marie Longo, an associate professor of education at Goucher College, have put this practice to the test.  These scholars proclaim that board and argue that they can build a child’s vocabulary and pave the w ay for better comprehension skills. We agree.

Board games are the perfect way for teachers and parents to introduce new vocabulary words to students.  Games such as Taboo, Password, Jeopardy, and Scattergoriesactually allow you to customize the games with you own vocabulary word lists.  The more vocabulary you introduce to your child, the more opportunity he has to improve his reading comprehension skills.

Our KnowledgePoints instructors have added more board games to the holiday shopping list. Apples to Apples, Apples to Apples Junior, Crosswords, Scrabble, Upwords, Bananagrams, Blurt!, Sight Words Bingo, and Wordplay for Kidsall made the cut.  Even video games such as Leap Frog, MyWordCoach, MySATCoach, Are you Smarter than a 5 ^th Grader?, and Book Wormwere added to the teachers’ shopping list this year.

All of these board games are enriched with new vocabulary terms.  Not only will your child be happy at play during the holiday season, you may also see an increase in your student’s grades.

Think Tutoring offers reading comprehension tutoring programs for students of all grade levels, delivered by highly qualified, state-certified teachers.  We serve students from Florham Park, Madison, Chatham, Whippany, East Hanover, Morristown and other surrounding towns. Call 973-593-0050to learn more about how we can help build your child's vocabulary.