What's the idea?
This compact guide is concerned with explicit teaching to support vocabulary development in learners. Essentially, we are looking at what steps we can take in order to expand the functional vocabulary that learners use in lessons (and life). We are looking to empower learners so that they can draw on a rich and varied vocabulary rather than over-relying on secure ‘go to’ words which might not always be right for the context they are working in. It is important to support students’ language development because research has shown that early language ability is predictive of children’s social and academic outcomes in later life (see the SCALES project). Speech and language needs have also been linked to higher levels of disruptive behaviour and government statistics show that over 74 per cent of young people in a youth offenders institute have below-average communication skills, and over 60 per cent have speech, language and communication needs. Although we ne
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