loobylou wrote:
look at some of the fantastic children's literature that's been written more recently that has great vocabulary as well.
Examples: the Inkheart series, thee Wildwoods series (Colin Meloy), the children's books by Trenton Lee Stewart (especially the Mysterious Benedict Society), the Penderwicks series.
+1 to all of the above. The author of the Inkheart series is Cornelia Funke. Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman are also exceptional writers with some books suitable for that age range that will encourage reading. That’s what you want - the rest will come.
Unabridged audio books are an amazing and overlooked resource for expanding vocabulary and sentence structure painlessly. Listening to stories by any of the authors listed (and many more) helps listeners to learn new words in context. Reading words you’ve
heard before is then far easier. Radio and podcasts count too, if you choose those with educated, well-spoken presenters who use a rich vocabulary.
There’s no shortage of interesting, well-written modern material. Start there.
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