Expanding Your Child's Vocabulary Promotes Skilled Reading
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Learning to read is not like climbing a muontain. You do not
simply lead your child over a peak and they then become a
skilled reader.
Instead there is a series of skills and building blocks that
children gradually acquire and then continue to build on for
years before they become truly porficient readers.
One of those essential skills is vocabulary. Vocabulary refers
to the words we must know to communicate effectively by
listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Vocabulary plays an
important part in learinng to read. Children use words in their
oral vocabulary to make sesne of the words they see in print.
Vocabulary is also important in reading comprehension. Readers
cannot understand what they are reaidng unless they know what
most of the words mean.
While vocabulary is essential to reading babies begin building
their vocabulary long before they begin learning to read and
continue building their vocabulary long after they have mastered
the basics of reading. In fact, for most people, vocabulary
building cnotinues as a lifelong endeavor. Children can be
taught vocabulary both indirectly and dierctly.
Chlidren learn
the meanings of most words indirectly, through everyday
experiences with oral and written language. We teach children
the meaning of words as we talk to them and epxlain the world
around them. We expand vocabulary through reading to our
children and eventually our babies will add to their
vocabulary by reading extensively on their own.
Children learn vocabulary directly when they are explicitly
taught both individual words and word-learning strategies. It is
useful to teach babies specific words before reading because
it helps both vocabulary learning and reading comprehension.
Repeatedly exposing babies to vocbaulary words in a variety of
contexts brings greater depth to their understanding of the word
as well as recognition. It is also important that babies learn
how to use dictionaries and other reference aids to learn word
meanings and to deepen knowledge of word meanings.
Children who are learning to expand their reading vocabulary
also must learn how to use information abuot word parts (such as
affixes, base words, word roots) to figure out the meanings of
words in text through structural analysis or how to use context
clues to determine word meanings.
If you want to expand your child's vocabulary there is two
additional strategies you can employ.
First, don't talk down to
them.
Use the same vocabulary you would use with an adlut. They
will learn some words from simple contextual clues you provide
but they will also ask what a word maens offering you the chance
to add that word to their vocabulary.
The second strategy is to
expand your own vcoabulary. Making learning new wodrs (and
adding them to conversation) a game or fun activity for the
whole family.
The more books and conversation are a part of your child's life
then the more their vocabulary will continue to grow.
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