VOCABULARY

Children who:

• regularly use non-specific language (‘thingy, whatsit, you know’) in speaking and writing
• hesitate in contributing a response
• have difficulties understanding what is asked of them
• substitute words of similar sound
• substitute words of similar meaning
• appear to forget new vocabulary
• rarely participate in class discussions

MAY be experiencing problems with vocabulary.

 

Children who are having difficulties with vocabulary will benefit from a structured approach to TEACH them the skills to effectively organise, store and retrieve new words. Learning vocabulary is a lifelong experience.

“Vocabulary at age 5 is a significant predictor of educational success at 30” (Feinstein and Duckworth, 2006)

“Vocabulary experts agree that adequate reading comprehension depends on a person already knowing between 90 and 95% of the words in a text” (Hirsch, 2003).

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