Lecture 12 Teaching vocabulary in preschool and primary education

The second way to enhance vocabulary is for children to hear the word within in the context of a familiar word which allows the child to make the unfamiliar word more relevant to him or her. An example of this would be placing the word hippopotamus with words like horse, dog, and sheep. The example of placing the word hippopotamus with like words provides the child with a better opportunity to learn the unfamiliar word. It can be hard for a child to learn new

words if the majority of the words are unfamiliar, placing into context with familiar words allows the child to make sense of the new word.