Having a varied and extensive vocabulary can assist with reading comprehension and reinforces meaning of new and more difficult texts. Teaching students to categorise words based on their complexity and frequency used, allows them to develop a bank of words they can use to enhance their oral language, reading and writing.
This pack includes a poster defining vocabulary and the importance of using a variety of words, as well as a poster outlining the three tiered approach to vocabulary.
The activity cards can be used as a whole class or individually to record vocabulary relating to teaching topics. One has space for Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 words and the other can be used to identify new words, define them and put them into a sentence.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound (ACELA1459)
Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose (ACELA1470)
Orally manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words through knowledge of blending and segmenting sounds, phoneme deletion and substitution in combination with use of letters in reading and writing (ACELA1474)
Understand how to use letter-sound relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words (ACELA1485)
Understand how to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns (ACELA1826)
Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphemic word families, common prefixes and suffixes and word origins to spell more complex words (ACELA1779)
Read and write a large core of high frequency words including homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling (ACELA1780)
Understand how to use phonic knowledge to read and write less familiar words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations (ACELA1829)