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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Developing vocabulary for kids
For the past few days, I am doing some research in developing vocabulary of kids ..Google search, discussion with my friends etc etc . Just jolting down my findings
Reading books is the foremost thing which is necessary for increasing vocabulary.. Read books To your kids again and again ..
For small kids, who don’t know alphabets and all, they listen and then learn the sounds and words
For kids who know letters and words, during reading point to the words / letters and stress the word so that they will notice it and remember it.
For kids who know to read, give them appropriate books( books depending on their age), so that they can read and their vocabulary will automatically increase.
My daughter is now 4 plus and she knows the alphabets and some three letter words and four letter words. She is having Montessori system of education where
They will be recognizing words with sounds and given one word, they make the spelling with respect to words.
One activity which I am practicing with her now is this ..
Take a set of 6 – 8 words .. I took 4 simple ones and two new ones .. and written it on small pieces of post-it notes.
I read those letters to her and asked her to stick it in some place of her reach.. and we made Sentences out of it .. Whenever we are together in that place, we say those sentences again and again ..
Like two words were ‘ice cream’ and ‘happy’
And we made the sentence that
“I am happy when I eat icecream”
Small small sentences .. Which they will remember…
Now they can remember those words and make sentences ..once thorough with these, introduce other set of words ..it helps a lot..
As mentioned before, Cross words is a good idea to make kids get to know about the spelling and words .. in the net, there are sites which help us to make our own crosswords. So collect a few words which the kid know and make a cross word of your own.
To teach more than one language, like hindi and English , tell one word in English and then tell the word in hindi ..They will then relate the words and learn it ..
For a kid of 4 years , repeatition is the key. You will have to repeat, repeat and repeat and they will remember it .
Make learning fun for the kids and yourself, and enjoy the learning process.
Reading books is the foremost thing which is necessary for increasing vocabulary.. Read books To your kids again and again ..
For small kids, who don’t know alphabets and all, they listen and then learn the sounds and words
For kids who know letters and words, during reading point to the words / letters and stress the word so that they will notice it and remember it.
For kids who know to read, give them appropriate books( books depending on their age), so that they can read and their vocabulary will automatically increase.
My daughter is now 4 plus and she knows the alphabets and some three letter words and four letter words. She is having Montessori system of education where
They will be recognizing words with sounds and given one word, they make the spelling with respect to words.
One activity which I am practicing with her now is this ..
Take a set of 6 – 8 words .. I took 4 simple ones and two new ones .. and written it on small pieces of post-it notes.
I read those letters to her and asked her to stick it in some place of her reach.. and we made Sentences out of it .. Whenever we are together in that place, we say those sentences again and again ..
Like two words were ‘ice cream’ and ‘happy’
And we made the sentence that
“I am happy when I eat icecream”
Small small sentences .. Which they will remember…
Now they can remember those words and make sentences ..once thorough with these, introduce other set of words ..it helps a lot..
As mentioned before, Cross words is a good idea to make kids get to know about the spelling and words .. in the net, there are sites which help us to make our own crosswords. So collect a few words which the kid know and make a cross word of your own.
To teach more than one language, like hindi and English , tell one word in English and then tell the word in hindi ..They will then relate the words and learn it ..
For a kid of 4 years , repeatition is the key. You will have to repeat, repeat and repeat and they will remember it .
Make learning fun for the kids and yourself, and enjoy the learning process.
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