I’ve always found reading to be fascinating. I just love to read. I was always a good reader and speller in my classes during my primary and high school years.
I try to instill in my kids the same love of reading and love for books. Reading will take you everywhere and anywhere I tell them. It helps to build your vocabulary, you learn so much, especially the meanings of words you never knew.
One of my favourite things to do is to play with words. I also like to try to decipher them when they are used in very punny ways!
As much as I dislike it, sometimes I’m slow to the draw and don’t see the true meaning until I sit looking at something for a while. I’m so out of practice!
My daughter had me read a sentence recently that included the following words:
“We Todd did”
I got it right away, (Did you?) but she said a friend of hers didn’t catch on immediately. That happens sometimes!LOL!
I had written a poem and in it I tried to play with the word ‘Deflated’ I stopped when I couldn’t think of anything else:
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Deflated
balloon
confidence
hot air
tires
ball
gassy
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Other ways to play with words are when you use a word that sound the same and mean something different. Or a word will be a totally different word, but when you look at it you can get another meaning from it!
Here are some great puns:
“
Lettuce (pray).
Taiwan (tie one)
A dog not only has a fur coat, but also pants!”
These were taken from: http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/puns.htm
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Hmmm, not too much of a play on words but it’s a start!
What can you come up with?