Vocabulary knowledge hub
Tiny Steps vocabulary resources move from familiar everyday words into word relationships, morphology, context and independent speaking or writing. The goal is usable word knowledge—not memorising long disconnected lists.
Published authority guides
The full frozen Vocabulary architecture is now published: six GV4 guides, four GV5 natural-English and transfer guides, and six GV5B foundation-completion guides. Each page connects explanation to context and practice, while Vocabulary Adventure remains the practice surface.
Build useful everyday vocabulary through familiar objects, routines, people and places, then practise meaning, context and independent use.
Open vocabulary guide →Build a richer bank of action words for movement, school, home and communication, then choose precise verbs that fit meaning and context.
Open vocabulary guide →Help children move beyond happy, sad and angry by learning precise emotion words, intensity, context and natural sentence use.
Open vocabulary guide →Help children choose useful describing words for size, shape, colour, texture, quality and personality without overloading sentences.
Open vocabulary guide →Teach useful school vocabulary for classroom objects, instructions, learning actions, subjects and everyday school communication.
Open vocabulary guide →Build useful vocabulary for family, rooms, household actions, daily routines and time-of-day so children can describe everyday home life clearly.
Open vocabulary guide →Teach practical words for food, drinks, clothes, body parts and basic everyday health so children can describe needs, choices and routines.
Open vocabulary guide →Build vocabulary for weather, nature, neighbourhood places, transport and travel through categories, scenes, context and real-life speaking.
Open vocabulary guide →Teach similar and opposite meanings without treating every synonym as interchangeable, using context and shades of meaning.
Open vocabulary guide →Help children use context to choose the right meaning and distinguish words that look, sound or seem similar but work differently.
Open vocabulary guide →Build vocabulary through base words, prefixes, suffixes and related word families while connecting changes in form to changes in meaning.
Open vocabulary guide →Teach children how to reread, notice clues, infer a possible meaning and check whether it makes sense in the sentence or passage.
Open vocabulary guide →Help children notice and use natural English word partnerships such as make a mistake, heavy rain and deeply interested through meaning, context and repeated use.
Open vocabulary guide →Teach useful phrasal verbs and everyday expressions through context, meaning, word order and child-relevant speaking situations.
Open vocabulary guide →Help children replace vague or repeated wording with precise, natural vocabulary that improves descriptions, explanations, stories and school answers.
Open vocabulary guide →Build retrievable vocabulary for fuller answers, conversation, explanation, storytelling and confident everyday speaking without memorised scripts.
Open vocabulary guide →Vocabulary progression
All sixteen frozen authority topics are now published and linked through the six-stage progression. The stage view remains the canonical learning map for future discovery and practice integration.
Build high-frequency child-relevant vocabulary for everyday comprehension and communication before asking children to manipulate lexical relationships.
8 of 8 authority topics published
Build semantic flexibility by comparing meanings, opposites, multiple meanings and commonly confused words.
2 of 2 authority topics published
Connect vocabulary growth to morphology so children can infer and generate related words through roots, prefixes and suffixes.
1 of 1 authority topics published
Move from knowing isolated meanings to inferring, selecting and using words inside sentences, stories and explanations.
1 of 1 authority topics published
Teach common word partnerships and multi-word expressions so children produce language that is natural as well as grammatically possible.
2 of 2 authority topics published
Transfer vocabulary into richer spoken answers and more precise written expression, including school and academic language.
2 of 2 authority topics published
Practice what you learn
The game practises meanings, context clues, synonyms, antonyms and word recall. It stays the practice layer while this hub owns the vocabulary knowledge architecture.