{"id":20444,"date":"2018-09-09T12:48:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T12:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/?p=20444"},"modified":"2018-09-09T12:48:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T12:48:17","slug":"word-of-the-week-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/2018\/09\/09\/word-of-the-week-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, as a school staff, we took part in Word Aware training, which is a structured whole school approach to develop the vocabulary of children.<br \/>\nIt is estimated that the average child learns 2000 \u2013 3000 words per year every year throughout their schooling which equates to six to eight words a day on average. Children with good vocabulary go on to become good readers and vocabulary has a major impact on all areas of learning.<br \/>\nAs part of our work to support the development of the children\u2019s vocabulary, we will be including a \u201cWord of the Week\u201d in our planning and will focus on the appropriate use of that word in the Nursery environment. Sometimes the selected word may arise from a child led discussion and at other times it may be linked to our learning focus. We will share this word on the Nursery blog so that you can share in the fun with words at home.<br \/>\nOur &#8220;Word of the Week&#8221; next week will be<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> &#8220;friend&#8221;<\/span> as we begin to form relationships and build friendships in a new environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, as a school staff, we took part in Word Aware training, which is a structured whole school approach to develop the vocabulary of children. It is estimated that the average child learns 2000 \u2013 3000 words per year every year throughout their schooling which equates to six to eight words a day on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/2018\/09\/09\/word-of-the-week-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word Of The Week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11912],"tags":[1745,234],"class_list":["post-20444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-2019","tag-literacy-and-english","tag-successful-learners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20445,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20444\/revisions\/20445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}