This product is FREE when you subscribe to our Learning Challenge Curriculum Unlimited Plan View the Learning Challenge Website hereDeveloping children's vocabulary is a crucial aspect of teaching and learning within schools and education. Developing an understanding of language can open up doors for young minds that they didn't know existed, enabling them to build the cultural capital necessary to succeed and fulfil their potential.
In Geography in particular, it is highly important that we expose children across the whole of the Primary age range to key vocabulary that is necessary for development in this subject area. Furthermore, they need to experience the challenging technical language that will help them to articulate their understanding more clearly, concisely, and effectively.
In Geography, children need to develop their awareness of key vocabulary and concepts when learning about different geographical locations and the difference between physical and human geography in order to apply this learning to other aspects of the geography that they will undertake. Understanding key geographical language allows them to ask perceptive questions and develop their knowledge of the substantive concepts which are part of the curriculum.
This vocabulary overview has been developed with all of this in mind and is split into two sections. The first links directly to the Geography units of learning delivered by the Learning Challenge Curriculum so that teachers and children know exactly the language required to be successful. For each year group, there is a set of six key words that should be learned as part of each topic. These six key words are also featured with definitions on the knowledge organisers (available separately) for each unit of learning. Alongside these six key words, is further language that the children could be exposed to as part of the unit of learning, when and where appropriate. The second section looks at language and vocabulary that is more subject specific, and for each year group the words that the children should experience over the course of the year appear here. In Geography, this is split up into 'locational knowledge', 'place knowledge (human and physical)' and 'geographical skills and fieldwork' to enable development across different aspects of geography.
This publication has been written to ensure that key vocabulary is highlighted for each unit of learning. It is perfect for teachers to understand and see progression across their year group. As a reference point, it makes it easy to see the vocabulary that children have been exposed to in previous year groups and how your teaching fits in across the rest of the school. For subject leaders, it is ideal for ensuring that necessary vocabulary is clearly set out in a progressive way across their subject and that it is developed and built upon year on year.
