Vocabulary Development
Research has shown that children who read even TEN minutes a day outside of school experience substantially higher rates of vocabulary growth between second and fifth grade than children who do little or no reading!
Listed below are some suggestions for increasing your child's vocabulary.
1. Identify words that are critical to story understanding which are not explained in the text.
2. Select words students will "encounter" again (moderate frequency words).
3. Preteach meanings of words using examples, synonyms, definitions.
4. Provide children opportunities to use the words.
There are two types of vocabulary words. Those that you can decode phonetically and those that are sight words. The later you just have to memorize. the more you read, the more your vocabulary list grows!