Creative Connect 4
This a really simple way of encouraging your students to broaden their vocabulary, and it can be applied to more or less any subject. For example, if you’re giving a history lesson, you could present your pupils with the word’s ‘monarchy’, ‘London’, ‘Parliament’ and ‘Prime Minister’ and ask your pupils to make as many connections between the words as they can in a given amount of time. This activity helps to stimulate your students by encouraging them to make simple word associations with any given topics, hence broadening their vocabulary around the subject.
A simple word maps
Primary school children really engage with visual stimulus, and word maps provide a great way of helping to deepen your pupils understanding of certain words and concepts. Once again, this activity can be applied to a variety of different subjects and it’s really simple to do - if you’re teaching and English lesson on the works of Roald Dahl for example, you could give your students the word ‘Charlie’, and ask them to write down all the words they associate with the character of Charlie in the form of a spider diagram. This technique allows your pupils to get creative with their maps using different colours, which creates a visual stimulus for your pupils and helps them to remember what they’ve done.
A-Z word relations
This vocabulary game is fun and challenging, and can be played by any pupil of any age! Start by choosing a word for your class, and from there, task them coming up with related words for as many letters of the alphabet. These could be synonyms, antonyms, examples, and more. For example - the starting word could be ‘school’ and the first three associative words could be ‘educational, ‘collaborative, ‘productive. Those are relatively complex examples that are just off the tops of our heads of course – you might well have your own ideas!
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