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School Readiness What is it

Blanks 3: School readiness and early school vocabulary: “What is it?”

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This no-preparation 46-page pack is designed to help students of all abilities to learn the strategy of semantic feature analysis, using high frequency school-related nouns. To make it accessible to all students, we have chosen easily pictured objects you will find in most schools.

With a scripted introduction, a colourful scaffold, and 35 examples, this pack is designed to give students plenty of structured practice describing common objects. Once completed, students can use the scaffold to describe any object, including curriculum specific nouns.

SKU: BLKS3-9 Categories: Language, Primary School Tags: Blanks 3, nouns, school readiness, school vocabulary, semantic feature analysis, what is is
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A no-prep, accessible, story-based description program using evidence-based semantic feature analysis (aligned with Blank’s 3rd Level of Questioning)

In the early years of school, we want students to learn to look beyond what they see and to rework their experiences using language. One way to help children to do this is to teach them to describe the information they see by reference to key attributes – the qualities or features regarded as characteristic or as inherent parts – of the things around them.

Semantic feature analysis – describing objects by key attributes – is an evidence-based strategy to learn new vocabulary and word meanings. It can deepen students’ understanding of words they already know. The strategy can also help children with word-finding or other language or learning difficulties, e.g. by giving them a way of describing what they mean when they can’t find the word.

This 46-page no-preparation pack is designed to help students of all abilities to learn the strategy of semantic feature analysis, using high frequency school-related nouns. To make it accessible to all students, we have chosen easily pictured objects you will find in most schools. We have selected attributes that we have found clinically to be of the greatest use in describing, defining and understanding common objects, namely:

  • function (what you do with it, or what it does);
  • location (where you find it);
  • object parts (to help students to look closely at objects);
  • color;
  • size; and
  • category/group (to stimulate semantic knowledge and associations between objects).

With a scripted introduction, a colourful scaffold, and 35 examples, this pack is designed to give students plenty of structured practice describing common objects. Once completed, students can use the scaffold to describe any object, including curriculum specific nouns.

For more semantic feature analysis, check out our ‘What is it? Semantic feature analysis – describing objects by key attributes’ resource.

For more information and free resources about vocabulary support and instruction, check out our article about learning new words here.

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