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Research shows that vocabulary is the best indicator of academic achievement. Yet little has been done to make vocabulary instruction more efficient. That’s why we worked with experts from Cambridge University to find the words that children come across in books. Our words are chosen carefully because no one has time to learn random words.
Visually engaging materials are more effective. So we wanted to create educational tools that really hook you in. That’s why we teamed up with the Hollywood artist behind Madagascar.
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We give you a cartoon for every word. And we choose our words wisely.
Mrs Wordsmith is the first company to bring creativity and science together in this way.
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Don’t get tripped up. There are 10,000 words your child needs to know by the age of 17. Learn them over time, without cramming. Keep reading to find out how your journey starts.
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The first step in your journey is to learn 1500 storytelling words.
These words form the building blocks of narrative writing. Over six months, your child will learn words to describe the following:
month 1 charactermonth 2 the weathermonth 3 tastes & smellsmonth 4 actionsmonth 5 emotionsmonth 6 settings
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Little and often is the key to success. This programme was designed for busy parents. It’s efficient. Don’t work harder, work smarter.
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Take the cards wherever you go. It’s never a bad time to practise.
Each month, add new storytelling words to your binder.
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There are a million words in the English language
5,000
words aretoo easy
1,000,000
words in the EnglishLanguage
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This is how we got it down to 10,000
10,000
are words youneed to know to
be smart
42,000
core words, like “snow” allow you
to understandrelated words like “snowy” 5,000
words are tootechnical or
archaic
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Word pairs are words that often appear together in texts. We use data to find the highest frequency pairs, so that we can teach English words as they are actually used. Instead of simply learning the definition of crave, kids will learn how to use it. For example: people crave power, coffee, and love. Essentially, children can learn howto have a writer’s intuition in a matter of minutes.
powercoffeelove
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Finding Mrs Wordsmith in literature
‘Prince Pondicherry wrote a letter to Mr Willy Wonka,’ said Grandpa Joe, ‘and asked him to come all the way out to India and build him a colossal palace entirely out of chocolate.’ Charlie & The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
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The Horses were rather tongue-tied for they weren’t yet used to being talked to as equals by Humans, grown-up Humans, that is.The Chronicles of Narnia, The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
He is a strange creature, but a shrewd one, and might prove of material assistance to us... Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Some of our favourite words in your favourite books
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social skills
self-directedlearning
communicationskills
comprehension
criticalthinking
verbalreasoning
spellingskills
narrativestructure
writingskills
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