Vocabulary links, articles and resources from across the Primary English website collated on one easy to navigate page.

Here at Primary English HQ, we’ve talked about, written about, and led training on vocabulary for several years. As a consequence of all those conversations about words, we’ve collated some of the FAQs we’re asked about vocabulary.

In this article I share some of the children’s books I take to schools when training teachers and TAs about vocabulary. To know a word well requires: “Rich, decontextualised knowledge of a word’s meaning, its relationship to other words, and its extension to metaphorical uses.” Beck, McKeown, & Omanson (1987). The quotation above finds its way into all the vocabulary training that I do. To me it sums up what word learning is all about.

The first in a series of posts about putting the playfulness into vocabulary learning.

Wordplay is a great way to grow vocabulary. In this article we look at riddles and how they can improve language learning in your classroom.

In this post I consider the place of wordplay in building children’s vocabularies.