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    A rich vocabulary is important for developing reasoning and communication skills. While the English language contains over 500,000 words, about 3,000 make up most everyday conversation and 400 words make up 65% of words children encounter. Parents can help develop their child's vocabulary through talking to them, reading daily, describing activities, providing positive encouragement, and playing word games.

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    A rich vocabulary is important for developing reasoning and communication skills. While the English language contains over 500,000 words, about 3,000 make up most everyday conversation and 400 words make up 65% of words children encounter. Parents can help develop their child's vocabulary through talking to them, reading daily, describing activities, providing positive encouragement, and playing word games.

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    A rich vocabulary is important for developing reasoning and communication skills. While the English language contains over 500,000 words, about 3,000 make up most everyday conversation and 400 words make up 65% of words children encounter. Parents can help develop their child's vocabulary through talking to them, reading daily, describing activities, providing positive encouragement, and playing word games.

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    A rich speaking vocabulary

    Words let us think, create ideas and reason. A poor vocabulary leads to a poor level of reasoning. A rich vocabulary, in contrast, leads to higher levels of reasoning and creativity and skill in communication skills that are highly valued in later life. It all starts with a love of words. Although there are over 500,000 words in the English language, just 3,000 make up the great majority of the words we use in everyday conversation. About 400 make up 65 per cent of the words that a child is likely to come across in childrens books. e activities and games in the activity cards will help develop their reading and speaking skills. Apart from the 3000 main words that make up our everyday vocabulary, thousands more come from them, using pre xes such as dis-, mis-, re-; and su xes such as -ed, and -ful. Once a child has grasped the meaning of these pre xes and su xes, hes well on the way to unlocking nearly all the secrets of the languages vocabulary.

    Talk, talk, talk to him!


    To learn to speak the basics of a language before starting school is a fantastic achievement. It is achieved largely through meaningful interaction between you and your child. Speak to him what is happening, when it is happening. e brain stores information in groups of ideas. So when you see a new subject a dog or a ower try to build on your childs existing knowledge by talking about what you see. e more you link ideas together the more she will learn. Later you can talk about what you saw and discuss it again.

    Read to your child every single day


    Look for childrens stories lled with vivid language, and introduce your family to some of the classic literature from quite an early age. But dont force this. Build on your childs interests.

    Talk about what youre doing


    Im going to make dinner now. Do you want to help me? Right, lets scrape some carrots. Here they are. And these are potatoes. Talk about the di erent colours and the di erent textures. en as soon as she knows the di erence, ask her to bring you some potatoes and carrots. You can also talk to her when shes dressing: Now Im dressing you. Remember this is your right leg, and this is your left. Which is your left leg? Which is your right?

    Positive encouragement
    If she says, I goed to grandmas, dont tell her that its wrong. Instead, try: You went to grandmas yesterday didnt you? And I went, too. Tomorrow well both go again. Nursery rhymes are easy to remember. e rhythm and rhyme in age-old stories as well new stories such as Dr Seuss give children wonderful opportunities for acquiring new vocabulary.

    Play word games


    As you drive around, play lots of word games and tell silly stories to each other. A good game is to take turns in nding words that start with the same letter: My grandmas cat eats melons and meatballs.

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