VOCABULARY
At Eastwards Consortium, our focus is primarily on educating and developing the next generation of our society. This section showcases off our ‘Wellcomm Primary’ activity set, and below you will find a set of tabs which depict these tasks further. If you find children are struggling with a task or, on the other hand, passing with flying colours, indications and suggestions are proposed in each section to ensure you keep all children challenged and on-task as much as possible.
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LEARNING, REMEMBERING AND USING APPROPRIATE VOCABULARY
MAIN ACTIVITY
1. For this activity, the child will learn and practice new vocabulary using a word web. This activity is not designed to be completed in one session but should be revisited throughout the weeks/half term of the topic.
2. Speak to your child’s class teacher about what topics your child is currently learning in Science, Maths, English, History or Geography. Ask for a list of 5-10 key vocabulary they need to learn. Alternatively, you may be able to get this information from the school website or from a Knowledge Organiser sent home by the school.
3. Read the vocabulary together and discuss what the words mean. Look at what letter they start with and how they are spelt – do they match any spelling patterns? Can you think of rhyming words?
4. Look the words up together in a dictionary (you can also use an online dictionary like https://kids.wordsmyth.net/we/).
5. To create a word web, write the name of the topic in the middle of an A4 piece of paper.
6. Write the key vocabulary around the name of the topic.
7. Draw pictures or write phrases next to the words to help your child remember what the words mean.
8. As your child learns more about the topic at school. Discuss which words they have used and what tasks they completed at school.
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY MORE CHALLENGING?
– Add more words of their own to the topic web.
– Get your child to explain to another family member (e.g. grandparents/aunt/uncle) what they have learning about using their topic web
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY EASIER?
– Use easier vocabulary to support the child in learning the new words.
– Write the words for your child on the topic web, getting them to add pictures.
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
· Use websites like BBC Bitesize to practice: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
· Find out new vocabulary using the Ninja ‘Word of the Day’ https://vocabularyninja.co.uk/word-of-the-day/
· Some fun vocabulary games that can be played at home and at school https://www.teachwire.net/news/ks2-vocabulary-games-improve-childrens-word-choices-with-fun-activities/
USING HOMOPHONES
MAIN ACTIVITY
- Tell the child that they will be learning about homophones. Use the following link to explain homophones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9fy4NREF-E
- After watching the video, list all the homophones and ask the child to use these in verbal sentences.
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY MORE CHALLENGING?
- Choose more complex homophones. Examples are: affect/effect, than/then, which/witch, here/hear, buy/by, weather/whether, to/too/two.
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY EASIER?
- Draw pictures with the homophones on there to support the child in learning them.