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By love2read

This idea also goes along with teaching context clues. I say or write sentences with a nonsense word. Then I ask them to think of as many words as they can that could really fit. For example, "I like to drink nice cold
chocolate humdingers." Humdingers could be milk, milkshake, etc. That one was pretty easy but you get the idea. I call this the Humdinger Game and they think it is a treat to play it. ;)
We also do some kind of shared reading every week: a poem, a big book, etc. Sometimes I use post-it notes to cover a word or I might circle it with wikki stix and then we do the same thing.

What could that word be/mean? What makes sense and why?
Finally, during word study (spelling) they practice their words by putting them in sentences, looking them up in dictionaries, or writing synonyms/antonyms for some words.