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Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence

Summer Reading Recommendations for the “Self Smart” Child

All ages Have You Filled a Bucket Today: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids. By Carol McCloud.Through simple prose and vivid illustrations, this book encourages positive behavior as children see how rewarding it is to express daily kindness, appreciation,

kidzmetjen June 21, 2011 Intrapersonal Intelligence, Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence Read more

Make It Your Mission! Part 3

Plan a date, time and place to have a gathering to talk to other “like minded people” in your community about your personal mission. Use your visual/spatial, interpersonal and/or verbal smarts to create one or more of the following to

kidzmetjen August 7, 2011 Interpersonal Intelligence, Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence, Musical Intelligence, Personal Mission Statement, Visual/Spatial Intelligence Read more

Limerick Epitaphs

Talk to your child about what an epitaph is (a brief poem or other writing in praise of a someone who has passed away so that others could get a sense of who the person was). Then read some limericks

kidzmetjen June 19, 2011 Interpersonal Intelligence, Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence Read more

Make it Your Mission! Part 2

Talk with your child about people who do work that’s similar to what your child said his or her mission was in the last exercise. Are there careers that are close in nature? Volunteer opportunities? Do some research online and

kidzmetjen July 31, 2011 Interpersonal Intelligence, Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence, Personal Mission Statement Read more

Starstruck Storytime

There’s no better time than warm, summertime nights to stargaze. Connecting the dots in the sky with the mythology from different cultures can leave your linguistic child star struck. Check books out of the library telling the stories of each

kidzmetjen June 19, 2011 Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence, Naturistic Intelligence Read more

Poetry Puzzle

Adapted with permission from Chicago Park District’s “Once Upon a Day Camp” Guide Read selections from an anthology like The Rattle Bag and compare the word choices of the authors from different eras. How has the English language changed over time? What

kidzmetjen June 19, 2011 Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence Read more

Skillful Singing

For most adults, recalling the alphabet goes hand-in-hand with singing the tune, as do many of the concepts we learned in school. For musical kids, this effect is even more pronounced. Chat with your child about some of the language

kidzmetjen June 21, 2011 Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence, Musical Intelligence Read more

Paint by Part of Speech

Brush up your budding artist’s English skills by transforming a paint-by-numbers download into a a paint-by-part-of-speech. (Or rhyming words for the little ones.) 1. Download a paint by numbers drawing off the internet (this one came from http://allkidsnetwork.com/color-by-numbers/) 2. Import

kidzmetjen July 10, 2011 Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence, Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence, Visual/Spatial Intelligence Read more

Haiku and Tanka

Pick up a child-friendly Haiku collection like If Not for the Cat or Cricket Never Does to introduce your child to the art and science of Haiku and Tanka. Talk about the structure of Haiku (5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in

kidzmetjen June 19, 2011 Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence, Logical/Mathematical Intelligence Read more

Quick Tips for Error-Proof Writing

A guest post by Brian Patterson of Grammarly For many people, there is nothing more annoying than a typo. Be it a misspelled word in the newspaper or a punctuation problem on a blog post, readers are almost immediately distracted

kidzmetjen September 23, 2011 Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence Read more
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