Core Word Vocabulary

NOUNS and other fringe words

Tom has been using these in school speech/reading activities. High interest words from this list have also been added to the AAC. Additional fringe words around a theme or activity can be added to a visual board to be used in conjunction with core words.

airport

ball, Bo, bus, book, banana, bird, beach, bike

car, cat, chicken, chips, cow, cubby, computer, camera, cut, chair, cloud

Dad, drums, Dr Who, drink, dice, desk

eat

football, fork, friend

game,

home,

iPad

jump

kick

Lego, like, library, lightning

Mum, music, moon

Oma

pig, puzzle, Pepper, pizza, phone, play, pasta,

rainbow, rain

spade, sheep, sausage, snow, sky, sun

Thomas, tap tap, toilet, TV,

walk, wind,

X, Y, Z

CORE WORDS - on the AAC

I - you - he - she - we - they - it - more

my - your - his - her - our there - want - for

me - are - time - colour - work - know - feel - new

please - is - look - take - family - ride - hear - like

come - am - wear - go - think - talk - do - need

okay - can - play - buy - get - make - tell - give -

ask - will - to - on - in - at - out - turn

put - was - have - read - eat - sit - sleep - drink

were - a - not - with - right - that - little

and - but - some - every - any - away - this - big

help -what - the - computer - now - later - friend - stop thing - said - call - let - find - try - walk - be

off - or - so - from - if - as - of - because

mine - than - then - well - much - when - which - good

yes - no - up - down - all - again - would

Core vocabulary refers to the small number of words that make up 80% of what we say. These words can be taught and reinforced in a variety of activities and allow for quick and easy 2 and 3 word combinations.

For example: stop, go, get, more, turn, mine, on, of, up, down, that allow a beginner communicator to take control of their environment, have their needs met and interact socially.

Core vocabulary is so powerful because it allows communicators to express a wide variety of concepts with a very small number of words.

Fringe words can be provided separately as a single communication board (with visuals) based on a theme and can then be used for a specific learning activity in conjunction with the core words.

Communication Boards can be grouped by subject or theme eg. Learning about space - sun, moon, planets, satellite, space suit, astronaut, etc. or words found in a specific book or film/TV series/ Here is an example of a communication board about Dr Who.

This very targeted vocabularly could then be extended into other activities. eg Sentence building using Clicker Sentences or handwriting practice using School Writing.

Hi

Tom