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ty may not always be comparable between subjects. For
instance, the Challenge list for Water includes words like
dehydration whereas that for About Me contains less
adventurous words such as cousin.
You will also find that some words appear on more than
one list. For instance, the word 'green' is in the topic lists
Colour and The Park.
To enter the word lists, the child must press
. This
will take them into the topic list. The topics are listed
alphabetically. So, if the child presses a letter key, then
all the lists beginning with that letter will be shown. For
instance, under the letter 'p', they will find themes such
as Persuasion, Pirates and Smugglers, Poetry, Popstars
and Showbiz, Prehistoric Animals etc. If the child enters
the first two letters, such as 'pr', all the words starting
with 'pr' such as Prehistoric Animals and Professions will
come up.
You will see there is a poster showing all the lists in
alphabetical order. You can display this on the wall and
make individual copies for children to help them when
choosing which list they need.
Most of the words in the wordlists are linked to Oxford
University Press' Primary Dictionary and are backed up
by dictionary definitions. However, about 20% of the
words — names of countries, seas and rivers, specific
animal groups such as dinosaurs — do not have a dic-
tionary definition. However, we felt it was still important
that children had access to these words.
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