Description
Stephen Parsons, Anna Branagan
This comprehensive and practical book provides an ideal platform for the provision of effective vocabulary development in children of all abilities. This rigourously tried and tested approach is an outstanding resource that will be an essential addition to any school and classroom and is also an important addition to the materials used by speech and language therapists.
In particular it provides:
A structured approach to promote vocabulary development in all children
Details a comprehensive and structured approach to learning with a multitude of activities and lesson plans
Adopts a whole school approach but is equally effective for specific classes and groups or individual learners
An effective tool to teach children who speak English as an additional language
Particularly suitable for Key Stages 1 and 2.
Word Aware is a whole school vocabulary approach to promote vocabulary development in children. This method of developing spoken and written vocabulary in all children is evidence-based following extensive research by Anna Branagan and Stephen Parsons. It is of particular value for children with special education needs and for those learning English as an additional language. This approach is full of practical and inspiring ideas that can be easily applied by busy classroom practitioners to develop both spoken and written vocabulary.
Word Aware has been developed by combining up to data research with extensive experience in the classroom. Stephen Parsons and Anna Branagan have been using this approach and training practitioners since 2010. The end product is an effective and time efficient method for developing the spoken and written vocabulary of all children. It has been enthusiastically received by class teachers, head teachers, curriculum co-ordinators, special needs co-ordinators, learning support assistants and speech and language therapists.
