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Wonderful Words and Vibrant Vocabulary part Two

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Wonderful Words and Vibrant Vocabulary part Two

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After collecting words during Home Learning at Bovey Tracey Primary School,  Years 3 and 4 were asked to find different ways of presenting their choice of new words in a variety of ways - poetry, posters and even little sketches on video. All done from home - you can see their work  here:

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Across the school we are focusing on developing vocabulary, and increasing the interesting words in every child's personal word 'bank'. The research has made it abundantly clear that children with poor personal vocabulary knowledge and understanding rapidly fall behind at school: from as early as age 11 they can be struggling to understand vital words across all subjects. They can struggle in the playground and in their relationships, because they do not understand the subtle nuances of language. Throughout secondary school they will fall further and further behind because their personal language level will not match that being used at school - in classes and, importantly, in exam papers. There is a significant correlation between employability and also between mental health issues later in life, and low vocabulary acquisition. So it is a priority that we address this early, and right from the start of school we are working to actively build children's vocabulary and to make them 'word aware': recognising that there is a wealth of words out there to be learned, and cherished, used, and shared.

The Word Collector

At the start of our period of homelearning during the COVID19 lockdown, we shared this story (with permission of the author) with all our children and asked them to collect words of their own to share with us all on Padlet Boards - one for each Phase.

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Across the school we are focusing on developing vocabulary, and increasing the interesting words in every child's personal word 'bank'. The research has made it abundantly clear that children with poor personal vocabulary knowledge and understanding rapidly fall behind at school: from as early as age 11 they can be struggling to understand vital words across all subjects.

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Click on the + in the lower right hand corner to start a new post and tell everyone about your school's amazing work on developing vocabulary!
(Do include your school's name and any teachers', where they're happy for you to do so, but NOT pupil names, please.)

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Teacher Jona's ONLINE ways to develop vocab

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Teacher Jona's ONLINE ways to develop vocab

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Since I teach online, one way of helping my students enrich their vocab is having an ONLINE VOCAB LIST. Another is using a word web/word map during the session.

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The classes at Northam Federation have created a traffic light in each class. Each teacher carefully chooses the vocabulary they want to teach for that half term, linking to topic or English. When we learn new words we add them to the traffic light, placing them at the level to show how familiar we are with the word. We spend time focusing on the 'red' words, using them as much as possible to become confident with them.

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Bovey Tracey Primary School has been using Padlet to share words the children are finding whilst working at home...
(This e.g. comes from Mrs Brown's KS1 class.)

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At Drake's C of E Primary School from The Link Academy, transferable target words are identified alongside the children. This is done across all ages and subjects. These become our 'yellow target words' and each class works in similar ways to encourage the children to explore and use their target words . At the end of a sequence or unit of work the words are kept in a book or file and revisited regularly to help the children retain them.

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Children at Southmead Primary School are constantly on the lookout for words to linger on and learn better. They collect them and their teachers then choose some to focus on in depth.
(This display comes from Mrs Spear's Y6 class.)

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Mr Pitt's Y1 class at Heathcoat Primary School explored prefixes related to numbers. He found that looking at morphology really helped the children's understanding of words, and their spelling!

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At Caen Community Primary School, teachers write up their chosen words of the week in the staffroom for all adults to see so they can then make a point of using these with the children.