As a general principle, the wordlists include headwords only. The other members of a word family (e.g. ‘painter’ and ‘painting’ in the case of the headword ‘paint’) are not listed separately. This restriction of the lists to headwords only means that students will, in fact, know far more than the stated target number of words when the related forms of the headwords are taken into account.
It is also recognised that some words have more than one meaning (i.e. homographs) and that students are generally introduced to one meaning at a time. In such cases, the words are shown in the lists followed by a number to indicate the different meanings that students are expected to know at different stages of learning (e.g. act1 as in ‘act a part in the play’ appears in KS1 and act2 as in ‘Act 2, Scene 1’ in KS2).
The wordlists are presented in an electronic version and are available in two formats. Apart from listing the words in alphabetical order to provide a quick reference, they are also grouped together by theme / topic area so that teachers can teach new vocabulary and collocations within appropriate contexts. Please refer to the categories of the Wordlists for KS1 and KS2. Where appropriate, the same vocabulary item may appear in more than one theme / topic area to heighten teachers’ and students’ sensitivity to the range of meanings that a word can have when used for different purposes and in different contexts.
The electronic versions of the wordlists have the advantage of allowing the words and their related forms to be viewed or located easily. Words for different Key Stages are marked with different colours. In this resource package, only the wordlists for KS1 and KS2 have been included. The wordlists for KS3 and Senior Secondary level are still being developed and will be released in due course.
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