I want to improve my 10 year olds vocabulary

[debdobs]

Hi I have a 10 year old who will soon be doing his 11+ and I want to help him to learn new vocabulary. Obviously he is reading plenty and I have downloaded the Nfer 11+ vocab sheets but the really seem a bit obvious and there were only about ten words that were new to him yet when we do practise papers words like midwife and nurseryman have him confused. Short of going through the dictionary does any one know of an appropriate resource of words that are suitable for his age group. I wish I could find a "learn 10 new words a day for 11 year olds". Any ideas!

Good idea OP. I have been helping out with GCSE exams at DCs school and am shocked by the limited vocab used (esp for English lit). Very basic, bland words used repetitively - want to shout out to them that there are millions of other words in our language.
It has definitely made me think about the scope of vocab my DCs use.

Get him a kindle or other e-reader and teach him how to click on words he doesn't know as he reads. That has done wonders for my DD's vocabulary, so much that she doesn't like reading old style books as she can't look the words up. Much better than churning through lists of vocabularly to learn which is a very unatural way of learning your mother tongue.