Vocabulary book_Curriculum Framework_19-20

Utility and usage for a learner in primary gradeCurriculum Framework My Vocabulary Book Objective of teaching learning vocabulary in primary grades Vocabulary aims to enable children: • develop reading skills • develop writing skills • acquire skills to communicate in day-to-day life Conceptual Framework Vocabulary words have been broadly divided in 3-bucket. • Tier – 1 words: Most commonly used vocabulary. Fry’s word list is based on these vocabulary words. • Tier – 2 words: These are frequent words used in academic media. Longman’s wordlist and tier-2 wordlist provided by Common Core explores this vocabulary set. • Tier – 3 words: These are technical words used in academic media only. Tier-3 wordlist provided by Common Core explores this vocabulary set.

Development of grade appropriate vocabulary wordlist This book was developed by keeping Tier – 2 word vocabulary as focus. Tier – 2 vocabulary words enables a learner to read text provided in the assessment papers, textbooks and workbooks. It will also enable them to write. To come up with the appropriate vocabulary wordlist the words used in each grade, the books provided by IMAX were analysed. Sort all the unique words used in a text of a grade Filter the most frequent tier-2 words by comparing it with Longman's wordlist and Tier-2 CC wordlist Filter the most frequent and grade appropriate Fry's word(tier-1) 117 grade appropriate vocabulary word + 27 common words used in assesment for primary grade.