Building Early Skills
Vocabulary Awareness
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Chapter 1 What is Vocabulary awareness?
Vocabulary, glossary, jargon, lexicon, palaver, phraseology, terminology, language of a person or people. No matter the word you use, all languages have words, and all languages emerge with words. The acquisition of the new words is a never ending process. Even, in our mother tongue, we are continually learning new words, and learning new meanings for old words. Effective learning of a foreign or second language involves to a great extent learning new vocabulary words.
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What do we mean by “vocabulary”? I look up for the term “vocabulary” in many dictionaries and in search engines in the web and found these definitions: Vocabulary is:
a listing of the words used in some enterprise
a language user's knowledge of words
the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts); "he introduced a wide vocabulary of techniques" wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
vocabulary is a set of words known to a person or other entity, or that are part of a specific language. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vocabulary
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Hop that word!
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What to do: Select the vocabulary you want to practice or review, print them on construction paper and laminate. Draw a traditional board game with a piece chalk on the floor. Instead of drawing a number, paste a picture in the middle of each square. Created by Ingles360ÂŽ
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Let children in turns hop the board and when they land on a square they have to identify and name the picture. Say “Can you name that word?”
What is it?
Can you name that word?
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