Learning spoken words
The collection of spoken words that a child understands is usually called his or her oral vocabulary.
How to build a collection of spoken words?
By doing the following activities such as through using
- books
- stories
- songs
- rhymes
- games
- puzzles
How to further progress?
By using a glossary with definitions of words that are in child-friendly language, with illustrations.
All these will help your child get a clear undertanding of the meanings of the words.
When your child reads, he or she looks at the written printed words on a page. He or she decides what spoken words the written words represent. But this does not help the child understand what he or she is reading unless he or she knows the meanings of the spoken words.
The larger a child's oral vocabulary, the more words he or she will be able to read and understand.
How to increase oral vocabulary?
Each child is unique. Each child learns differently.
The best way is to talk together about people and thing in your child's world through the above activities mentioned.
Using different types of learning materials available, this helps to incresease your child's oral vocabulary. This is an important educational objective.
