Word Aware is a whole school approach for teaching vocabulary. It is research driven, highly practical and effective. It is based upon three basic principles: get children excited about words, teach the most important words and facilitate word learning strategies.
Session 1: will focus on the underlying principles, the word learning environment and teaching words selected from books shared with the class.
Session 2: will cover teaching topic related words including early verbal concepts, word learning strategies and implementation.
Stephen is a Speech and Language Therapist and author of Word Aware, Language for Thinking & Language for Behaviour & Emotions. He is the chair of @NAPLIC an organisation which exists to promote and increase the awareness and understanding of children and young people with speech, language and communication needs, and is a committee member for @RADLD an organisation created to Raise Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder.
