Module 2 Vocabulary Enrichment with Ox-Cart Man
Channel: Hannah Oberlander
Date: 2021-09-27

Reading aloud to your child increases and enriches your child’s vocabulary. Whether you are a parent, grandparent, daycare facilitator, preschool or elementary school teacher--or if you are studying early childhood education, these videos are for you.  

In this video, we will be exploring vocabulary enrichment and how to provide opportunities for your child to develop his or her vocabulary through the consistent practice of listening to a read aloud.  

Pointing to a picture and associating it with an unfamiliar word will enhance a child’s understanding of what the word means.  For example, while reading the Ox Cart Man, by Donald Hall, a parent could say, “Look, you see that wooden bar across the ox there in the picture?”  The parent could then point to the ox cart man next to his cart and then use this opportunity to explain the meaning of the word within the context of the story and using the picture of the cart from the illustration on the page.

In addition, clues within the context of the story will enable children to predict what unfamiliar words mean just by using the known words around it.  Vocabulary surfaces within language skills, so the more a parent reads to his or her child and talks with them about what is read, the better a child’s vocabulary will grow!  

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