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Many “real” games work well for vocab play and practice. Games such as Balderdash, Taboo, Scrabble, Blurt, Bananagrams, word bingo, and others are fun. There are online games as well, such as Scholastic’s Synonym Toast.
Vocabulary refers to the words we must understand to communicate effectively. Educators often consider four types of vocabulary: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Listening vocabulary refers to the words we need to know to understand what we hear. Speaking vocabulary consists of the words we use when we speak.
This handout discusses the three tiers of vocabulary, Tier 1—Basic Vocabulary, Tier 2—High Frequency/Multiple Meaning, and Tier 3—Subject Related. Tier one consists of the most basic words.
Language | Approx. no. of words | Dictionary |
---|---|---|
Tibetan | 195,919 | Rangjung Yeshe Dharma Dictionary |
Hindi | 183,175 | Hindi Wiktionary |
Romanian | 180,000 | dexonline |
English | 171,476 | Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition |
A robust vocabulary improves all areas of communication — listening, speaking, reading and writing. Vocabulary is critical to a child’s success for these reasons: … Vocabulary helps children to think and learn about the world. Expanding a child’s knowledge of words provides unlimited access to new information.
The typical 4-year-old: Has a vocabulary of more than 1,000 words. Easily puts together sentences of 4 or 5 words.
6 The 6-year-old child typically has a 2,600 word expressive vocabulary (words he or she says), and a receptive vocabulary (words he or she understands) of 20,000–24,000 words. 12 By the time a child is 12 years old, he/she will understand (have a receptive vocabulary) of about 50,000 words.
Vocabulary is the all the language and words either used or understood by a person or group of people. An example of vocabulary is all the words that a toddler understands. An example of vocabulary is the language used by doctors. … My Russian vocabulary is very limited.
To accomplish them, Nation (2001) proposed nine aspects in vocabulary need to teach to language learners, namely spoken form, written form, parts of word that have meaning, concept a word has and items it may associate, association of the word, grammar of the word, collocation of the word, register and frequency of the …
Hiebert (2009) describes three general criteria for determining which words to choose for intensive teaching: 1) words needed to fully comprehend the text, 2) words likely to appear in future texts from any discipline, and 3) words that are part of a word family or semantic network.
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