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Texas ISD School Guide
Texas ISD School Guide







Articles for Teachers

Teaching Children to Become Word Savvy
By:Cleb Brown

Becoming word savvy is what our children need in order to grow educationally. As parents and teachers, we strive to mold our children in certain ways that we desire them to be. Language and vocabulary building are two important areas for students must develop as they mature. These areas are the important foundations for students as they go on to higher learning and become part of the workforce.

There are many ways of teaching children at an early how to develop these skills. Children love to play fun games. These fun games can also help them build skills for preschool and beyond, and promote the desire to learn.

It is important to provide children with creative activities. We can use activities such as coloring pages, various art crafts, puzzle shapes, letter and word recognition activities, and list alphabetizing. Sentence building is another way of teaching to become familiar with areas such as math, science, English and social science.

Children learn easily and more aggressively, when they are taught through activities that promote their curiosity and are associated with things that are happening around them. Children become word savvy through Interactive resources such as anagrams. These are other ways to help children improve and enhance their skills in word definitions, word pronunciation, and creating longer and more difficult words.

Child need to be properly guided through these activities in order for them to become familiar with the learning process and the world around them. Learning at a younger age will always be reflected in their future abilities. Learn begins at home and is to be enhances through our education system.

About me.
I have a BS degree in education and have taught for 34 years. I have learned over the years that success in school is centered around the development of language skills. The development of word recognition, word building, definition building and word creation are vital to a students success. Having children become word savvy at an early age should be the goal of every parent and teacher.

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