Vocabulary Enrichment Programme: Enhancing the Learning of Vocabulary in Children

Description

This book helps to enhance the understanding and use of vocabulary in secondary school students and young adults. Specifically designed for older children and young adults with language and communication needs, this practical language programme was created by a specialist speech & language therapist with input from secondary school teachers and students. The Vocabulary Enrichments Programme : focuses on enhancing the understanding and expression of vocabulary and word meanings in students aged from 8 to 18 aims to create an awareness of how improved vocabulary knowledge can be used to enhance learning in school and social interactions in school and home environments encourages an awareness and interest in words and language, introduces the concept of words and meanings and identifies their role and use in language, communication and social interaction introduces the word map and explore the rich networks of information attached to each word, including the meanings and make up of words using root and base words, suffixes and prefixes, synonyms and antonyms, and the etymology (origins) of words focuses on themes taken from the National Curriculum, including living and non living organisms, planet Earth and the world, the human body, emotions, healthy living, and occupations enhances the understanding and use of figurative and idiomatic language as well as more compound and complex sentence structures introduces a range of cueing techniques to aid in word retrieval. This book provide effective strategies for word learning to encourage independent word learning skills. It teaches an effective, efficient and realistic use of the dictionary as a tool for word learning and explore the role of the thesaurus in enhancing oral and written work. Review: Worth the money - Like me you probably thought 'how much?' when you saw the cost of this book. It is pricey, but then it really is a therapy resource rather than a book. As a therapy resource it is research tested and evidence based. All of the resources are included too and so it will save lots of time. As it provides all of this, it really becomes very good value. I would recommend this to Speech and Language Therapists / Pathologists and teachers who aim to develop their students' vocabulary skills. It is particularly useful for students in secondary / high school. As we are often left with stretching primary school resources to 'fit' secondary students, having adolescent specific resources is extremely welcome. Review: Five Stars - As expected