Vocabulary Stories
Posts about Vocabulary Stories
Agitate — A Vocabulary Story
Mateo and the Fizzy Fiasco --Mateo had one job at the family picnic: carry the enormous bottle of fizzy lemonade from the car to the blanket. One job. Easy....
Abeyance — A Vocabulary Story
Chao and the Great Marble Run --Chao had a magnificent plan: a marble run down the entire staircase, through the hallway, and into a saucepan by the front...
Aghast — A Vocabulary Story
Dad and the Disastrous Haircut --On the morning of Auntie Noor's wedding, Layla heard a buzzing noise coming from the bathroom. It was not a bee. It was worse....
Disclose — A Vocabulary Story
Richard and the Secret That Nearly Escaped --Richard was terrible at keeping secrets. Truly terrible. If you told Richard a secret, it usually escaped from his...
Hone — A Vocabulary Story
Seven Bounces --Rose's grandad could skim a stone across the lake so it bounced seven times. Seven! Rose's best attempt went plop. Just plop. Not even a small...
Vex — A Vocabulary Story
Ming and the Missing Piece --Ming had spent three whole days on the biggest jigsaw puzzle in the world. Well, the biggest one in her house, anyway. One...
Abridge — A Vocabulary Story
Farhana and the Never-Ending Story --Farhana loved telling her little brother Yusuf a bedtime story every night. There was just one tiny problem: her stories...
Envisage — A Vocabulary Story
Joao and the Wonky Wardrobe --Joao had a job to do, and it was a wobbly one. His mum, Beatriz, had bought a flat-pack wardrobe, and now three hundred bits lay...
Abide — A Vocabulary Story
The Fort of Very Serious Rules --Charles built the greatest cushion fort the living room had ever seen. It had a flag (a sock), a door (a tea towel), and a...
Perturb — A Vocabulary Story
The Man Who Could Not Be Perturbed --Eva's grandad was the calmest man in Bristol. Possibly the world. When a wasp landed on his jam sandwich at the park, he...
Abominable — A Vocabulary Story
Suresh and the Socks of Doom --Suresh loved football more than anything, but after Saturday's match his socks smelled abominable. Not just a little bit whiffy....
Abrogate — A Vocabulary Story
Patricia and the Great Rule Rebellion --Patricia's big brother Michael ran the Garden Den Club, and he loved rules more than anyone alive. The den had...