learning vocab for 11+ Any brillinat ideas?

[steppemum]

Hi, dd1 is year 5 and will do the 11+ next September. We will be preparing her ourselves. I have just downloaded some great lists of synonyms and antonyms and words with more than one meaning.

I am looking at the lists and just wondering how to make learning them in any way interesting?

Anyone got any ideas for fun ways of increasing her vocab? Dd is very able, but I am aware that despite wide reading, her vocab is her weakest point, hence starting with it now.

Any suggestions welcome

Bit late for mine then. She has a couple of tests in January for indies. Don't have any grammar schools near us (except the ridiculously competitive super selective which is just under an hour's travel for her so wouldn't be a consideration...she did do the test for practise and scored under the cut off mark so doesn't get to practise any maths and English in test conditions. Oh well!)
Think she will be OK with Indie 11+ as she is really good at English and okay at maths. Just not VR, strangely enough.

We used www.wordbuilder.com. I wouldn't say it was fun, exactly, but it did help!

We also used www.questionmix.com/

Curses - wordbuilder.co.uk - not .com!

bob - those are both brilliant sites, thank you very much, can't believe I haven't found them recommended before.

wordbuilder isn't particularly cheap, but worth it I think

Glad they're of use! Wordbuilder is not cheap, granted; we only subscribed for a couple of months and short daily sessions on it still made a difference to DS's vocab.

Great thread. Lots of very good techniques. Thanks alll.