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Vocabulary instruction typically begins in kindergarten and continues through third grade and beyond. Vocabulary instruction should occur in all grades because it benefits all students regardless of the students' reading levels.

How many words should your child know? 12-18 months20 words4 years1,500-1,600 words5 years2,100-2,200 words6 years2,600 words expressive vocabulary (words they can use) 20,000-24,000 words receptive vocabulary (words they understand)12 years50,000 words receptive vocabulary2 more rows

noun. : a test for knowledge (as of meaning or use) of a selected list of words that is often used as part of an intelligence test.

3 Vocabulary grows to be about 900–1,000 words by the time a child is 3 years old. 4 The typical 4-year-old child will have about a 1,500–1,600-word vocabulary. 5 By the time a child reaches school age and heads to kindergarten, he/she will have between a 2,100- and 2,200-word vocabulary.

To find your vocabulary, count how many words you know among the words numbered 1 through 40, and multiply by 150. Then count the number of words that you know among words 41 through 70 and multiply by 600. Add the two subtotals together and this is your vocabulary.

The PPVT-R was designed for use with individuals aged 2½ to 40 years. The English language version of the PPVT-R consists of 175 vocabulary items of generally increasing difficulty. The child listens to a word uttered by the interviewer and then selects one of four pictures that best describes the word's meaning.

People who know 250 to 500 words are beginners. Those who know 1,000 to 3,000 words can carry on everyday conversations. Knowing 4,000 to 10,000 words makes people advanced language users while knowing more than 10,000 words puts them at the fluent or native-speaker levels.

The test can be used with individuals ages 2 years, 6 months through 90 years and older. It measures expressive vocabulary acquisition and can contribute useful information when assessing expressive vocabulary, as part of a language evaluation, across the lifespan.