{"id":978,"date":"2016-10-02T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paddyeger.com\/educatingamerica\/blog\/?p=978"},"modified":"2016-10-02T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T10:00:07","slug":"vocabulary-and-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2016\/10\/02\/vocabulary-and-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary and Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I have a friend who’s seven year-old son has the most incredible vocabulary. In his case, he loves words. But, all kids need to be encouraged to own a great vocabulary through our<\/em> use of strong and\/or specific words, regardless of their age. Since words reflect concepts and content, it’s important to the rounded development of all learners. Check out these facts:<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong>\u00a0 By kindergarten, kids should own’ 500-1,100, By fourth grade a student should\u00a0 ‘own’\u00a0 7,875 words.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0<\/strong> There are tiers of words: (1) basic, everyday words, (2)general academic words, and (3) difficult words. Kids should learn and understand an average of 5-9 new words a day. Now the catch:<\/p>\n

To learn a new word, it must be heard and used appropriately 28 times.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yikes! That’s a lot of repetition!<\/p>\n

Bottom line…we need to share important words with kids; the ones we use in daily speaking as well as the ones we read in print. So, where can we start?<\/p>\n

Color words, the ways people and animals move,\u00a0 days and months of the year, times of the day, sports and entertainment lingo, etc, as your and their interests dictate.<\/p>\n

These websites may offer help, or will at least get you started:<\/p>\n

www.readingrocket.org\/article\/vocabulary-development-during-read-alouds-primary-practice<\/a><\/p>\n

www.scholastic.com\/teachers\/collection\/vocabularydevelopment<\/a><\/p>\n

www.myvocabulary.com<\/a><\/p>\n

beyondpenguins.ehe.osu.edu\/issue\/weather-and-climate-from-home-to-the-poles\/vocabulary-development-strategies-for-english-language-learners<\/a><\/p>\n

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I have a friend who’s seven year-old son has the most incredible vocabulary. In his case, he loves words. But, all kids need to be encouraged to own a great vocabulary through our use of strong and\/or specific words, regardless of their age. Since words reflect concepts and content, it’s important to the rounded development\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,32,22,24,42,16,259],"tags":[258,260,261],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engaging-students","category-general-thoughts","category-language-arts","category-ideas-websites","category-reading","category-teacher-tips","category-vocabulary-skills","tag-vocabulary-development","tag-vocabulary-websites","tag-word-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}