TEACHING ABOUT LANGUAGE AND VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT

NURHAZIQAH BINTI NOR IZAM PISMP 3.10

 Teachers play a very important role in developing childrens vocabulary. Ways to develop childrens vocabulary: - Provide many interesting, hands-on experiences in the classroom. - Encouraging children to experiment with and discover things for themselves. - Create many opportunities for interaction between the teacher and students and between students and students.

SEMANTIC MAPPING
Diagrams that help children to see how words are related to one another
Johnson and Pearson (1984).

Write the word in the middle of the chalkboard or a large piece of chart paper.

Brainstorm other words that are related to the key word, or classify the new words in categories that you or the students suggest and label them.

Choose the key word related to students ideas, interest or current studies or just any word.

STRATEGIES TO CREATE SEMANTIC MAP

Discuss the words and their relationships and meanings.

WORD PLAY
Teacher can help children develop their own understanding and control over language by providing time, books and materials for language play and by displaying childrens written examples of language play.

Palindromes

Riddles, Puns and Conundrums

Synonyms and Antonyms

Parts of speech

WORD PLAY
Homonyms

Onomatopoeia

Similes and Metaphor

SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS

Synonyms are words that have the same or similar meaning. Make a game of searching for synonyms for colour words. Places to look could be home, in the crayon box or on boxes of hair colouring at the store. Encourage older student to use a thesaurus for writing. Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings.

HOMONYMS
The words that look the same (homographs) or sound the same (homophones) but have different spelling or meaning. Brainstorm pairs or lists such as bare/bear and illustrate.

PARTS OF SPEECH
Introduce students to the parts of speech through literature. Have them illustrate parts of speech or make their own grammar books.

ONOMATOPOEIA
Words that sound like the sounds they describe for example: - snap - crackle - pop

PALINDROMES
Words or sentences that can be read forward and backward - for example Mom, Dad. Start a list of palindromes in class and add to it.

SIMILES AND METAPHOR

Similes : expressions that make comparisons using like or as. As white as snow. Metaphors : expressions that compare one thing to another without using like or as Have children write, illustrate or dramatize their own similes and metaphor.

RIDDLES, PUNS AND CONUNDRUMS

RIDDLES: Puzzling questions that are solved by guessing. PUNS: Play on words using sound and meaning. CONODRUMS: Riddles based on imagination.