Vivacious Vocabulary

Grow your understanding of vocabulary and the role it plays in your students’ literacy learning in this course from Andrell Education’s Samantha Taylor. Together with the building blocks you need to better understand literacy, you’ll gain a stack of lesson plans, games, and other teaching techniques ready to use in the classroom.

  NESA Accredited
  • Targeted to

    All Educators

  • 1.5 Hours

    Course Duration
  • Standards

    2.5

  • Star rating

    New Course

NESA accredited

Completing Vivacious Vocabulary will contribute 1.5 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of
Knowing the Content and How to Teach it addressing Standard Descriptor(s) 2.5.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.

About this course

Andrell Education owner, Samantha Taylor is back with her second course with ClassCover Learn, this time, turning her attention to vocabulary. As well as gaining a better understanding of the development of language, you’ll learn about the key role vocabulary plays in every students’ literacy learning. Chock full of lesson plans and teaching strategies like games and semantic techniques, this course will boost your ability to teach vocabulary and help students of all levels level up their literacy.

You will:

  • Develop your understanding of language acquisition and appreciate the importance of teaching vocabulary to assist student literacy development and achievement 
  • Learn how to explicitly teach vocabulary through modelling for students and then providing opportunities for guided and independent practice 
  • Be equipped with strategies such as games and semantic techniques that can motivate students and encourage their creative use of language to suit different purposes such as to entertain or to persuade 
  • Understand how to help their students up-level their word usage and expand their vocabulary in both their oral and written language 

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About the presenter

Samantha Taylor is an experienced educator and owner of Andrell Education. For over 12 years, Sammy has presented both in Australia and internationally on the Big Write and VCOP (vocabulary, connectors, openers, and punctuation) methodologies. Through her work with Andrell Education, Sammy is passionate about raising writing standards in junior school students across Australia.