Enriched Vocabulary
This is knowing the specific names of things, feelings, concepts and ideas. The more vocabulary children have the easier it will be for them to understand what they are reading. What can you do to help your child? The best thing you can do is talk to your child starting when they are babies. The more you talk to your child, the more they will develop their vocabulary.
Be descriptive when naming things- the scruffy, brown dog or the big blue truck. Expose children to new words by speaking with them during everyday activities. Describe what you are doing and what they are doing. Children understand many more words than they can verbalize themselves. Discuss observations- what's happening at the grocery store, during the car wash or when playing at the park. Discuss concepts such as time, opposites and the changing seasons. Read books and discuss unfamiliar words or ask swap synonyms for descriptive words in the story. For example, if the story describes the dinosaur as big, say the dinosaur was big, he was huge, he was gigantic, etc.
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