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Enriching Vocabulary in Secondary Schools explores the importance
of vocabulary for academic, social, emotional, and employment
outcomes. It describes the vulnerability of vocabulary skills in
children and adolescents with speech, language, and communication
needs (SLCN), and suggests practical ways to support them as they
learn. The book contains a theoretical overview of vocabulary
development in children and adolescents, highlighting its impact on
both learning and psychosocial functioning, and profiles the
vocabulary learning of children with SLCN. It includes a range of
programmes, strategies, and resources for vocabulary learning,
together with the evidence base and key research underpinning them.
Chapters offer a plethora of word-learning activities, ideas, and
downloadable resources for implementation in the classroom, small
groups, and individually to meet the needs of pupils with differing
levels of language and cognitive ability. An essential resource for
speech and language therapists, secondary school teachers, and
support staff, this book will give readers a deeper understanding
of the significance of language, along with an extensive practical
toolkit to help teach and enhance the vocabulary learning of older
children and young people.
This book improves the understanding and telling of stories in
secondary school students and young adults. Specifically designed
for older children and young adults, this practical language
programme was created by a specialist speech & language
therapist with input from secondary school teachers and students.
The Narrative Intervention Programme: focuses on enhancing the
understanding and expression of stories in students aged from 8 to
18 with language and communication difficulties aims to create an
awareness of how storytelling can be used to enhance learning in
school and social interactions in school and home environments
facilitates storytelling enhances the joy and enjoyment in telling
stories identifies different types of narratives and provide
examples for each type encourages effective listening and attention
skills examines different means of making story production more
interesting through vocal variety, body language and print
encourages the use of the story planner in planning and structuring
essays in the classroom and for homework.
This book helps to enhance the understanding and use of vocabulary
in secondary school students and young adults. Specifically
designed for older children and young adults with language and
communication needs, this practical language programme was created
by a specialist speech & language therapist with input from
secondary school teachers and students. The Vocabulary Enrichments
Programme: focuses on enhancing the understanding and expression of
vocabulary and word meanings in students aged from 8 to 18 aims to
create an awareness of how improved vocabulary knowledge can be
used to enhance learning in school and social interactions in
school and home environments encourages an awareness and interest
in words and language, introduces the concept of words and meanings
and identifies their role and use in language, communication and
social interaction introduces the word map and explore the rich
networks of information attached to each word, including the
meanings and make up of words using root and base words, suffixes
and prefixes, synonyms and antonyms, and the etymology (origins) of
words focuses on themes taken from the National Curriculum,
including living and non living organisms, planet Earth and the
world, the human body, emotions, healthy living, and occupations
enhances the understanding and use of figurative and idiomatic
language as well as more compound and complex sentence structures
introduces a range of cueing techniques to aid in word retrieval.
This book provide effective strategies for word learning to
encourage independent word learning skills. It teaches an
effective, efficient and realistic use of the dictionary as a tool
for word learning and explore the role of the thesaurus in
enhancing oral and written work.
Do you 'see red' when people use phrases you don't understand. Or
maybe get 'cold feet' because you are feeling 'under the weather'?
For those on the autism spectrum or when English isn't their first
language, these every day phrases are completely baffling. These
sets of cards humorously depict well known idioms and the
accompanying detailed booklet provides a dictionary meaning for
each card, and a range of ideas and activities for use. 36 cards
per pack and accompanying booklet Suitable for all ages Dr Victoria
Joffe is a specialist speech and language therapist and senior
lecturer in developmental speech, language and communication
impairments in the Department of Language and Communication Science
at City University, London. She is also programme director of an
innovative MSc degree in Joint Professional Practice: Language and
Communication, run in conjunction with the Institute of Education.
Intended for use in educational settings and/or therapy contexts
under the supervision of an adult. This is not a toy.
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