Assessing receptive vocabulary. Age 5-6 - Clare Dowdall

Close the word gap with 30 colourful illustrated word lists for Year 1. Use popular and curriculum topics flexibly as matching pairs, pre-teach activities or on word walls. Send the vocabulary lists home to encourage discussion and topic knowledge. Check for understanding with half termly tests.

300 illustrated words grouped by topic give children a rich, relevant vocabulary that will support their learning.

Topics - photocopy, download and edit!

1. Human body

2. At school

3. On holiday

4. In hospital

5. Keeping safe

6. Keeping clean

7. Cooking

8. Making a cake

9. In the kitchen

10. Toys

11. Parts of plants and trees

12. Garden plants

13. Vegetables

14. Salad

15. Fruit

16. Minibeasts

17. Birds

18. Fish and amphibians

19. Reptiles

20. Mammals

21. Polar regions

22. Weather

23. Physical features

24. Human features

25. Light and dark

26. Making marks
27. Money

28. Flight

29. Musical instruments

30. Shapes

Dr Clare Dowdall has worked at Plymouth University since 2001 as a Lecturer in Language and Literacy Education. She has an active research profile as well as working in school with trainees following a School Direct training route. She has been looking at assessment with her current students and she writes the teacher notes for Collins Big Cat.

'We have been using the vocabulary resources with small groups of children in interventions sessions and found the lists & clearly structured activities helpful. The resources are accessible and quick for staff to use.' Ruth Dixon, Deputy Head, Hayward's Primary School