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Early Literacy in Action: Vocabulary Presenter: Darla Casella, Children’s Librarian Mockingbird Branch Library A Workshop Presented By The Children’s Department Of The Abilene Public Library February 12, 2015 Abilene, Texas

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Early Literacy in Action: Vocabulary

Presenter: Darla Casella, Children’s Librarian

Mockingbird Branch Library

A Workshop Presented By The Children’s Department

Of The Abilene Public Library

February 12, 2015Abilene, Texas

Vocabulary helps with every aspect of a child’s development

• Children need a wide vocabulary to express their selves and describe emotions and actions.

• Larger vocabularies enable children to think more deeply.

• The larger vocabulary children have the easier it will be for them to understand what they are reading.

The Facts

• Most two-year-olds have vocabularies of 300-500 words.

• Most five-year-olds enter school knowing between 3,000 – 5,000 words.

• The closer to knowing 5,000 words a child is, the better off he or she will be.

Talking and reading with children are two of the easiest and most effective ways to build your child’s vocabulary.

TALKING READING

• Are able to decode (sound out) unfamiliar words easier.

• Are able to express themselves more accurately.

• Have an easier time comprehending what they are reading.

• Are able to recognize more words in print because they have heard and learned more words verbally.

Children who have strong vocabulary skills…

• Talk, talk, talk

• Read, read, read

Simple ways that you can build children’s vocabularies

More Ideas

• Call items by more than one name: i.e. Cat, Kitten, Kitty

• Incorporate rhyming.

• Say words slowly enough so that children can hear the individual sounds.

• Play games.

Activities

• The bag game

• Spider on the Floor

• Teddy Bear Song http://youtu.be/f-6_697iL24

• Little Mouse

• Where is the Green Sheep?

Books To Encourage vocabulary building:Using fun, descriptive words

• For Babies and Toddlers

– Barnyard Banter by Denise Fleming

– Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox

– Peekaboo Morning by Rachel Isadora

– Blue Sea by Robert Kalan

– Counting Kisses by Karen Katz

– Baby Loves Visiting by Michael Lawrence

– A Truck Goes Rattley-Bumpa by Jonathon London

– Lemons Are Not Red by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

• For Preschoolers

– Elephants Can Paint, Too! by Katya Arnold

– The Bus For Us by Suzanne Bloom

– Wet Dog by Elise Broach

– Red-Eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley

– Warthogs Paint by Pamela Duncan Edwards

– Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor

– Rattletrap Car by Phyllis Root

– Wild About Books by Judy Sierra

– The Napping House by Audrey Wood

Books To Encourage vocabulary building:Using fun, descriptive words

Bibliography

http://suffolf.lib.va.us/kids-teens/parents-corner/vocabulary.html

http://www.k12reader.com/effective-strategies-for-teaching-vocabulary/