Building Your Child’s Vocabulary: Techniques and Tools

Find tips, tricks and techniques to boost your child’s vocabulary skills and master the English Language.

Improving vocabulary is an important part of a child’s language development and plays an important role in their success in and out of the classroom.

Improving vocabulary helps kids become effective communicators, and improves their reading and writing skills. A strong vocabulary enables a child to better express their thoughts and ideas, to understand texts more easily, and to build knowledge across many different subjects.

Ways to Improve Vocabulary

There are several fun and engaging ways for young children to improve their vocabulary. Irrespective of the method used, the key to improving vocabulary is exposure and repetition. Encourage your child to use new words in context and make it a fun and enjoyable experience.

Here are a few suggestions on how to improve your child’s vocabulary:

Read to your child every day and encourage them to read on their own. Choose books with interesting and varied vocabulary to help expand their word knowledge.

Play word games with your child, such as Scrabble Junior, Boggle Junior, or Hangman. This can help them learn new words and reinforce spelling skills.

Have conversations with your child about a variety of topics. Use words that might be new to them and explain their meanings. This can help them expand their vocabulary and also improve their listening and comprehension skills.

Use flashcards or picture cards to teach new words. You can create your own or find them online. Make it a game by asking your child to guess the word based on the picture or definition.

Useful Resources

VOCABULARY BOOSTER KIT (Age 4-8 years)

Recognising words by Sight helps kids become Faster, more Fluent Readers. Sight words are common words that kids recognise instantly without sounding them out. Many sight words are tricky to read and spell – they are not spelled the way they sound. Hence we bring this hands on super easy to implement sight word work activity.

Children will read the sight words on the bottom list them find and circle the words. They can check off the word on the list when it is found. The words are located across and down in the word search. Also to make it further easier we have provided a room poster “Sight word of the Day” which you can hang for daily perusal.

Includes: 10 crossword search Sight word Reusable cards. A write and erase “Sight word of the day” Posted. 1 write and erase pen.

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