Vocabulary

• Depending on childhood experiences, children amass a store of words to express and interpret meanings
• A rich vocabulary is essential for efficient reading because understanding individual words in a text is essential for understanding the text as a whole.
• Teachers construct learning experiences to teach new words, and lead students from everyday terms to technical terms such as from ‘where animals live’ to the term ‘habitat’.
• Students learn new words through active participation in discussions, explicit teaching, and reading and discussing a range of texts.

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Reference:
Winch, Gordon, and Marcelle Holliday. 2010. "Oral Language." In Literacy, by Gordon Winch, Rosemary R Johnston, Paul March, Lesley Ljungdahl and Marcelle Holliday, 50-62. Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press.