Vocabulary Puzzles are beneficial in building our language skills

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The English vocabulary is a varied and evolving thing, vocabulary puzzles are excellent tools which can be used to improve those skills.

VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT :

Vocabulary development is a process by which people acquire words. Babbling shifts towards meaningful speech as infants grow and produce their first words around the age of one year. In early word learning, infants build their vocabulary slowly. By the age of 18 months, infants can typically produce about 50 words and begin to make word combinations.

In order to build their vocabularies, infants must learn about the meanings that words carry.

From an early age, infants use language to communicate. Caregivers and other family members use language to teach children about how to act in society. Through active directions, adults often offer children cues for understanding the meaning of words.

Throughout their school years, children continue to build their vocabulary. In particular, children begin to learn abstract words. Beginning around age 3-5, word learning takes place both in conversation and through reading. Word learning often involves physical context, builds on prior knowledge, and includes semantic support. The phonological loop ( through practiced pronunciation )and short term memory may both play an important role in vocabulary development.

Word of the Day

thermal
Definition:	Relating to or associated with heat.
Synonyms:	caloric

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Vocabulary Puzzles

Learning new words and phrases can often be a daunting task that is why we feel it is vital to find unique and refreshing ways to introduce words to a person, so we have designed these following free-form crossword style puzzles to help build your vocabulary. Remember all of these puzzles are always 'FREE' to download!

Strategy and Tips:

Like many other crossword-style puzzles the words are arranged in both across and down orientations, with the words interlaced.

One difference between the standard crossword and these puzzles is that after the clues a word list ( Vocabulary words ) is attached to each puzzle.

**Our recommendation **

Scan the Vocabulary word list and enter the words you are sure the definitions of first.

For additional crossword assistance visit : CROSSWORD HELP

DOWNLOADING: Free Printable Puzzles

INSTRUCTIONS

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You can print these Puzzles in colorful PDF format . To do so you will need a PDF reader (like Adobe acrobat), which you can download for free here :

Download Adobe Reader here (a new window will open so you can download it without leaving this page).

If you want to open the file in your browser window, just click on the selected game link (not all browsers may have this feature).

However, if you want to download the file to view later, (see 'HOW TO SAVE TO YOUR PC')

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If you want to download the game files to view later, simply click on any game link below and once the file opens in a new window (then right-click and choose "Save Target As" or "Save File As.").

Next, select where you want to save the file on your hard drive.
Once you have saved the file, locate where you saved it, and double click to open it.

In order to print, open the downloaded file, and select the "Print" option from the menu.

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