Vocabulary
Vocabulary is the words children must know in order to communicate with others and it also plays an important role in learning how to read. When children are first learning how to read they are using their knowledge of words based on what they have heard orally to make sense of what they text is saying. Oral language and learning vocabulary go hand in hand. Oral language is when children articulate their ideas and opinions with others and build their understandings of text through discussion. So as children share their thoughts and hear what their peers have to say, this is when they begin to understand that words convey meaning, transport information and communicate thoughts and ideas.
Vocabulary is also very important to comprehension, this is because readers are not able to understand what they are reading if they do not know what most of the words mean. When children beginning reading more advance text this means that they are going to be exposed to larger vocabulary and that they are going to have to learn the meaning of that vocabulary.
How can we teach vocabulary?
-using high-end, more advance words while speaking to the children
-allow the students to have a wide-range of books for reading
-teach new words directly, give them multiple opportunities to use the word in their reading, writing and talking.
Vocabulary is also very important to comprehension, this is because readers are not able to understand what they are reading if they do not know what most of the words mean. When children beginning reading more advance text this means that they are going to be exposed to larger vocabulary and that they are going to have to learn the meaning of that vocabulary.
How can we teach vocabulary?
-using high-end, more advance words while speaking to the children
-allow the students to have a wide-range of books for reading
-teach new words directly, give them multiple opportunities to use the word in their reading, writing and talking.
Reference:
http://www.readingrockets.org/reading-topics/vocabulary
http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101/vocabulary
http://www.readingrockets.org/reading-topics/vocabulary
http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101/vocabulary