Vocabulary

 

The study shown above shows something I have known for awhile regarding the amount of words heard by children and how this affects them. I agree very much with the image below.

So now that I know all this what am doing to help with this. Well, I am doing some things, but there are more things I need to do and include in my programme. I do need to get them to show me in different ways which words they may not be sure of, to guide me a bit more in what they need to work on. The traffic light approach is one I would like to try. 

Word consciousness is important and I plan to continue working on this in my reading programme. 

The following image sums up of the different aspects that should be considered. 

I think overall, I learned that there are different aspects to vocabulary and to continue working on including these.  Discussions with new vocabulary words and looking at words in different ways is important and I will need to do more of this.