Vocabulary

Stage 1

Junior and senior infants

Through appropriately playful and engaging learning experiences, children should be able to

Stage 2

First and second classes

Through appropriately playful and engaging learning experiences, children should be able to

Stage 3

Third and fourth classes

Through appropriately playful and engaging learning experiences, children should be able to

Stage 4

Fifth and sixth classes

Through appropriately engaging learning experiences, children should be able to

use different strategies such as a speaker’s gestures, tone of voice, known words, pictures, sentence structure, definitions and descriptions to acquire and show understanding of new words, to include other languages where appropriate.

use sophisticated oral vocabulary and phrases, including the language of text, topic and subject-specific language, and express and use decontextualised language Decontextualised language
Decontextualised language is defined as language that is context free. It is not rooted in any immediate context of time and situation and does not rely on observation or immediate physical experience. The use of decontextualised language is critical to children’s learning at a variety of levels. It is used to create and to convey new information to audiences who may share only limited amounts of background information with the speaker. The terms decontextualised language and ‘literate language style’ are similar as both refer to language that is organised, explicit and distanced. .

• éisteacht le cainteoir agus leideanna éagsúla ar nós geáitsí, fíorábhar, nó tuin chainte a úsáid chun teacht ar an bpríomhtheachtaireacht agus ar an tuiscint gur féidir cumarsáid a dhéanamh i dteangacha éagsúla.

  úsáid a bhaint, le linn spraoi agus comhrá as roinnt focail/frásaí Gaeilge bunúsacha a chloiseann siad go minic.

  ciall a bhaint as focail/frásaí nua trí úsáid a bhaint as réimse straitéisí ar nós gheáitsí agus thuin chainte an chainteora, focail ghaolmhara, pictiúr, gníomhaíochtaí, mímeanna nó ón gcomhthéacs nó trí éisteacht le cur síos ar an bhfocal.

  úsáid chuí a bhaint, le linn spraoi, comhrá agus tuairisciú, as stór focal/frásaí bunúsacha a bhaineann le topaicí a bhfuil cur amach acu orthu agus focail/frásaí Gaeilge a bhaineann leis an timpeallacht scoile agus le saol an pháiste, in abairt Bhéarla agus/nó Ghaeilge.

  (TF5, C1 + 2)

select and apply a variety of strategies to acquire a wide range of words and phrases from different sources such as literature, subject-specific texts and other languages.

• beannachtaí, nathanna cainte, agus frásaí coitianta a úsáid le tuin agus le foghraíocht chuí.

  úsáid a bhaint as stór focal agus frásaí ó bhéal, ina measc teanga a bhaineann le téacs agus le topaic.

  straitéisí éagsúla a úsáid chun stór focal agus frásaí a shealbhú ó fhoinsí éagsúla.

  réimse leathan beannachtaí, nathanna cainte agus frásaí coitianta a úsáid le tuin agus le foghraíocht chuí.

  úsáid a bhaint as réimse níos leithne de stór focal agus de fhrásaí i réimse seánraí.

  straitéisí éagsúla a roghnú agus a úsáid chun stór focal agus frásaí a shealbhú ó fhoinsí éagsúla.

  (TF5, C3 + 4)

critically select and use a wide-ranging, complex oral vocabulary, phrases and figurative language for familiar, abstract and subject-specific concepts and topics, as appropriate to audience Audience
The audience is the intended group of readers, listeners, viewers that the writer, designer, or speaker is addressing. and purpose.