Vocabulary One Stop Shop
The recently published Ofsted Research review series: English includes multiple references to vocabulary. As educators who have been writing about and training on vocabulary for many years, this is extremely welcome. So, with this official recognition that vocabulary knowledge is an essential part of reading, writing and spoken communication, we’ve collated vocabulary content from across the Primary English website in a one stop shop to help you find articles and resources to ensure your children become word aware.
Teaching Vocabulary: Frequently Asked Questions
Inspired by conversations with teachers, this popular article addresses many of the questions we’ve been asked about teaching vocabulary directly. If you have questions about Tier 2 vocabulary, words of the week or whether you should download published lists of Year group vocabulary, this article addresses all of these questions and more.
Playing with Words
A short collection of activity ideas and apps to bring joy into your vocabulary teaching. If you’re looking for mental-oral starters or morning work ideas, this article should be of interest.
Very Punny Vocabulary
In their book Developing Reading Comprehension, Clarke, Truelove, Hulme and Snowling refer to the Poor Comprehender Profile. Amongst the characteristics indicative of poor comprehenders difficulties with figurative language. You probably recognise these children; the ones that take words at face value and who struggle to understand jokes.
On our Supporting Struggling (Striving) Readers course, we look at a range of strategies to support children who find comprehension difficult. Without giving too much about that course away, jokes and wordplay figure. As they do in this article that celebrates puns and Dad jokes.
Playing with Words: Part deux
More creative approaches to bring vocabulary teaching alive.
Riddle With Vocabulary
This short article continues with a theme of playful approaches to vocabulary learning. Referring to riddles and kennings, it offers highly practical activities that can be used to immerse children in a vocabulary rich curriculum. Poetry lovers will find ideas to use in their classrooms in this article.
Vivacious Vocabulary
If you’re looking for books to inspire children’s love of language, this is the article for you. It provides a list of creative and fun books that make the most of wordplay and humour. Expect to find books using puns, collective nouns, pallindromes and much, much more.
Downloadable resources
Made by the experts at Primary English, our resources ensure you can teach a range of vocabulary skills. Simply click on the button below or search our resources page by ‘vocabulary’.
Training
We offer regular face-to-face and webinar training on vocabulary. Just click on the link to book a place on our next vocabulary training session. We’re also able to come to you or provide a bespoke webinar to ensure that we meet your vocabulary needs.