A broad vocabulary doesn’t just help you to appear sophisticated. It helps where comprehension and communication are concerned as you can gain a deeper understanding of situations, the context of what you’re reading and communicate effectively. From an educational standpoint, it can help children to increase the quality of their work as they can formulate better answers and write in a more succinct way. Keep reading for tips from a pre-prep in Worthing on how you can help your child with theirs.
Reading
It’s true – books make you smarter. Reading is the fastest way to expand your vocabulary. As children read, they are able to pick up new words and understand what they mean through the context that they are used in. It’s why it has such a heavy emphasis in schools and a minimum of 30 minutes of reading is recommended a day.
Play Games
It sounds like a rather unusual way to help your child with their English but trust us, it will get them engaged and help them to expand their vocabulary in no time. All they need is a dictionary and puzzles to complete like cross words and word searches. As they look for the words that fit the clues and their spellings, they will build some familiarity.
Create a Word Wall
Another way is to create a wall of their successfully memorised spellings. Each week at school children are given a list of spellings to learn and they are then tested on them. This builds their vocabulary, but the words are quite often forgotten about after. A word wall helps as it’s something they can visually glance at and use to check that they still remember how they are spelt.
We hope that you found these tips useful. For more posts like this, head over to our archive where we have more parenting guides and tips. If you have any tips on helping someone to develop their vocabulary we’d love to hear them!
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