Vocabulary.com will join the New York Times Learning Network in a summer reading kickoff on Thursday June 7. Together with Figment, the National Writing Project, The Office of Letters and Light, Edutopia, and many other great organizations (for a complete list, go here), we will be tweeting the hashtag #SummerReading to all our Twitter followers, and letting the world know:
The Summer Reading (and consequent vocabulary absorption) Season is here!
Join us by tweeting your summer reading plans as well.
As a Vocabulary learner, we don't need to tell you that reading is the best way to add new words to your vocabulary. (But we do tell you anyway here.) We also don't need to tell you that the Vocabulary.com Challenge has been designed to speed up and mimic the process by which you brain learns words naturally. (Want to know more about that? Go here.) What might be news is that these two ways of learning, when combined, are the fastest and most efficient way to take your reading to the next level.
Take, for example, the task many people set for themselves in the summer: Reading a Classic, such as Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. What better way to approach this wonderfully fresh and adventurous page-turner than armed with information about the sometimes-challenging words that pop up in its pages? With our Jane Eyre Vocabulary List, you can learn the most difficult words before you start reading by playing our fun word-learning game. Sometimes all you need is a chapter or two of words to get a feel for the author's language. Once you get hooked into the story — and as the Jane Eyre story is one of rebellion, love, madness, and haunting, it's hard not to — the words will begin to simply flow into your brain.
Another great summer reading ambition: The Beach Read. We can help you with this, too. After the success of its movie release this fall, you'll probably be seeing more people sunbathing beneath Hunger Games trilogy books than ever before. Cement the words you are seeing in those books into your brain by learning our comprehensive Hunger Games lists here.
Want to check out other great literature lists on Vocabulary.com? Look below for some titles to get you started. Follow us on Twitter (on June 7th, we'll be tweeting #SummerReading lists all day). Go here for a comprehensive listing of Vocabulary Lists in the Literature category. Or make your own. It's easy and we explain how here. Then get your beach chair, your iced coffee, and your sunscreen, and start reading!
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
