Vocabulary One Stop Shop
Vocabulary links, articles and resources from across the Primary English website collated on one easy to navigate page.
Teaching Vocabulary: Frequently Asked Questions
Here at Primary English HQ, we’ve talked about, written about, and led training on vocabulary for several years. As a consequence of all those conversations about words, we’ve collated some of the FAQs we’re asked about vocabulary.
Playing with Words (part deux)
Explicit, planned, and strategic strategies for teaching vocabulary are at the core of the Primary English approach to teaching vocabulary. However, we also love to have fun and in this article we exemplify some of our vocabulary resources and how they can help you and your class play with words.
Vivacious Vocabulary: books to support playful vocabulary learning
In this article I share some of the children’s books I take to schools when training teachers and TAs about vocabulary. To know a word well requires: “Rich, decontextualised knowledge of a word’s meaning, its relationship to other words, and its extension to metaphorical uses.” Beck, McKeown, & Omanson (1987). The quotation above finds its way into all the vocabulary training that I do. To me it sums up what word learning is all about.
Playing with words
The first in a series of posts about putting the playfulness into vocabulary learning.
Riddle with vocabulary
Wordplay is a great way to grow vocabulary. In this article we look at riddles and how they can improve language learning in your classroom.
Very punny vocabulary
In this post I consider the place of wordplay in building children’s vocabularies.