Picture Books That Build Vocabulary
The words for Week 10 are from the picture book, New Shoes for Sylvia by Johanna Hurwitz, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. To think that reading picture books will expose your child not only to a wonderful and gorgeously illustrated story, but to SAT building vocabulary. Jerry Pinkney is also a Caldecott-winning illustrator and we are enjoying The Lion and the Mouse at home which is an amazing work that tells the story solely through watercolor illustrations with almost no words. This is not the case for New Shoes for Sylvia!
p.s. I have a category of posts on SAT Vocabulary Words for Kindergarteners here.
certainly: After a week of rain, the weather was certainly not improving with still more rain expected today.
collective: The children sounded a collective sigh of relief that the forecast for rain was not going to cancel their field trip.
perhaps: Perhaps you prefer apples to watermelon for your snack?
smooth: The stone Zoe found at the beach was oval and smooth like an egg.
patience: I don’t have the patience to complete this jigsaw puzzle.
resourceful: My sister was resourceful in using limes for our lemonade stand when we ran out of lemons.
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Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
- Junior Library Guild Gold selection
- Massachusetts Book Award Long List
- Selected as one of 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023 by dPICTUS and featured at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair
- Starred review from School Library Journal
- Chicago Library’s Best of the Best
- 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
- Green Earth Book Award Long List
- Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids
Amazon / Barefoot Books / Signed or Inscribed by Me
Amazon / Scholastic / Signed or Inscribed by Me
I would love to have a “list” of picture books that use rich vocabulary! Maybe an on-going list of sorts.
Hi Nadine,
Ask and you shall receive. Just kidding. Actually, I have some posts on picture books with rich vocabulary: http://www.pragmaticmom.com/2011/09/favorite-picture-books-to-build-vocabulary/
I also posted about a dozen posts on Picture Books with SAT vocabulary words here: http://www.pragmaticmom.com/category/school-subjects/literacy-school-subjects/sat-vocab-in-picture-books/