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Link vocabulary teaching and spelling through word webs,
etymology and morphology.
Build vocabulary work in reading and writing lessons.
Promote use of taught vocabulary through sentence stems
and oral rehearsal before writing.
Train teachers to identify which words to teach and how.
Next steps
Plan and integrate vocabulary teaching.
Agree common approaches such as pupil-friendly
deÞ nitions, choral pronunciation and dual coding.
Integrate short and engaging vocabulary activities into
the school day.
Provide vocabulary interventions to target pupils who are
most vulnerable to falling behind.
Continue to assess teachers’ training needs and plan
provision accordingly.
Link vocabulary teaching to oracy, reading and writing
requirements across the curriculum.
Advanced steps
Strengthen whole-school and inter-school vocabulary
teaching.
Agree a common approach to active vocabulary
teaching, including planning for multiple encounters with
target words.
Create and use rewards which recognise vocabulary
progress.
Create a vocabulary index system to promote robust
integration of explicit teaching and systematic revisiting of
vocabulary.
Agree key academic vocabulary used in the secondary
curriculum to be integrated into teaching at primary level. 32
