Vocabulary is vital to not only the classroom community but to society as well! Without it, where would we be as humans in our developments of communication? Vocabulary captures everything imaginable and helps us to express whatever we choose and can also miss the expression completely. There are so many parts of words that rely on each other to build the English language and every other language. Vocabulary teaches children word meanings and well as spelling, which in turn builds upon all other aspects in the educational curriculum that we teach our students each and every day. The more vocabulary that is built into student’s memory, the more likely they are to be able to pull words from the sentence to understand an unknown word meaning. There are also those words that are only connected to their subject area and can have multiple meanings across the subject areas. If students do not know these meanings and how they are connected to their subject areas, they very well may not be able to pull words within the sentence to make appropriate word meaning. On another note, the more students are able to see vocabulary words, the more they become acquainted with the word and all of its characteristics. Students spelling errors will decrease and they will begin to use words more appropriately and in their correct context. If the world was only made up of symbols, it would be no world of any use. With that principle in mind, if we just communicated with symbols, what kind of humans would be?
