5 Stepsīoth the specific academic kindergarten vocabulary and more general and common words need to be taught and explained to all children, but English language learners especially benefit from this. However, one way to help build the connection for reading and writing (more so for older students) we can give our students these vocabulary sheets to write down the new word they learned and to practice using it in a sentence. To learn more about supporting oral language development, you can check out this blog post on phonological awareness or this blog post on writing warm-ups. That oral language understanding will come first before we should expect students to use the word in reading or writing. In order to learn a word, students should be able to first, understand the word spoken to them and then later be able to use the word when speaking. When students are learning a new kindergarten vocabulary word, we want to help them make connections to other words that they already know. It’s also a bonus word wall for students to use when writing about the word. We should create visual vocabulary cards when we can to help students match the object with the word. When we are teaching academic content, we know that there will be words that students need to learn in order to understand the topic. I also encourage families to continue reading aloud to their children so the children can be exposed to even more new words. Reading aloud to students and picking a few words to define in the read-aloud is extremely effective for teaching students vocabulary. The most effective way to teach kindergarten vocabulary words is with a daily read-aloud. If students struggle with growing their vocabularies it will greatly impact their ability to be successful readers. He wrote “Knowledge of a vocabulary word is a learned association between form (a spoken, or later, written pattern) and meaning….Vocabulary… develops by adding hubs and building connections to these many types of knowledge, a process that continues through the lifespan… A person can infer much about the meaning of a new word because it occurs in the same contexts as familiar words.” Additionally, Seidenberg tells us that “Five-to six-year-old English learners have vocabularies in the range of 2,500 to 5,000 words, and they add about 3,000 words per year (about eight words a day) for the first several years of learning”. Mark Seidenberg wrote about this in his book: Language at the Speed of Sight. It will be much, much harder to read a word they’ve never heard before versus a word they are familiar with. Children come to us knowing a certain amount of words and that plays a big role in their ability to learn to read. It is one of the strands in Scarborough’s Reading Rope. Teaching vocabulary is an incredible piece to the puzzle of how we teach children how to read. This blog post will go over several ways to teach kindergarten vocabulary to your students and help them practice their vocabulary skills. It needs to be taught alongside other literacy skills. Having a large vocabulary is a large predictor of reading success and a big component of learning to read.
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