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Provides students with an opportunity to order words

e.g. hot, warm, cold, freezing

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Having an understanding of compound words, synonyms/antonyms, homonyms, homophones, affixes, similes etc. Knowing these 'techniques' / ways of writing, is important when discussing texts with children, to explain further meanings behind words and how they are used in context.

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Vocab in Reading (Abby, Britney, Claudia, Rebekka, Margaret) 

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Vocab in Reading (Abby, Britney, Claudia, Rebekka, Margaret) 

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Why vocab is important in reading:
- Helps the child to comprehend text
- Builds cognitive resources
- Enhances comprehension by supporting inferential process (meaning making when reading between the lines)
- Rare words may be seen in picture books rather than spoken English
- Well equipped to make sense of words when they encounter them in reading
- Difficult for young children to comprehend text if they encounter too many words that they do not know the meaning of
- Receptive vocabulary

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Strategies -
- Repetition of words
- Word wall
- Explicit teaching
- directly and indirectly. Dominantly indirectly in language rich environments
- use words in different context, oral and written
- riddles
- book reading, indirect instruction

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What does this section tell you about the significance of vocabulary in your classroom program?

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What does this section tell you about the significance of vocabulary in your classroom program?

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Levels of vocabulary knowledge provides a foundational understanding of language for children to apply in all curriculum contexts.

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The teacher can teach students a new word each day to increase their vocabulary.

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- Developing and understanding the relationship between sounds and letters

- Reading words they already know and learning those letters

- Children acquire vocabulary indirectly, first when they hear other speak or read, then utilise those words when they talk.

- Learning names, first your own then other people in your family

- Discovering patterns between words and sounds

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Students can engage in games, such as Pictionary, Scrabble and Charades, or solve riddles to learn new words and practise using their existing vocabulary.

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Learning and knowing the meaning, context, synonyms, where, when and how to use words. This ranges from unknown words that are being learnt to words that the children already know.

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- Interactive word walls where students can add words they learn and add to their vocabulary
- Interesting word charts that students can add to when they learn a word that is interesting to them

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Vocab (Abby, Britney, Claudia, Rebekka, Margaret) 

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Vocab (Abby, Britney, Claudia, Rebekka, Margaret) 

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Vocabulary is:
- Internal database which which can be receptive and expressive
- Words we use to communicate meanings
- Words that we understand (associate with a meaning)
- Receptive is words we understand when heard or read
- Expressive is the words we use
- Not restrictive from sign language or other languages
- Site vocab: collection of words that a person recognises on site

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1. Unknown word

2. Knowledge that the word exists - recognises the word but doesn't know what it means

3. Partial knowledge - vague or general understanding

4. Complete knowledge - can use the word appropriately and comfortably