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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a teen and reading didn't do it, it's not going to do it now.

My son is interested in sports and music.

I listen to his music and find words I think he doesn't understand and explain it to him. I also take lyrics I don't understand and he explains them to me... which usually requires a lot of background information since I don't know pop culture stuff.

We read sports articles on line or in the paper (i know we still get a paper) and there is good vocabulary there.

It eventually turned into ... yes mom I know what XXX means... I'm not an idiot, I know who the speaker of the house is... etc. (unfortunately there is a lot of politics in sports)[/quote]
Newspapers are known for writing to a very basic level. [/quote]

But they use words that are no in normal everyday language... hence vocabulary. I can pick up the front page of the paper and pick 3 words most teens don't know every single day. [/quote]

That's interesting (you're responding to me).  I'll have to try that.  I like your music idea and that it is a two way street.  My kids love it when they know  something I don't and they get to be the teachers.
A little offtopic, but I know sometimes my kids don't know words simply because they haven't been exposed to the concept.  They aren't teens yet, but we were listening to a book on audiotape and the whole premise is based on a puzzle in a will.  They didn't know what a will was, an heir, beneficiary, etc.
Similarly, we picked up The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe...mom, what's a wardrobe?[/quote]

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