{"id":16435,"date":"2023-06-15T20:04:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/?p=16435"},"modified":"2023-08-02T07:35:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T07:35:40","slug":"cognates-helping-children-recognize-new-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/?p=16435","title":{"rendered":"Cognates: Helping children recognize new words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cognates help children recognize new words and understand their meaning.<\/p>\n<p>When teaching young learners an additional language (Spanish &amp; English) it is important for teachers to develop ways to help them identify the words they don&#8217;t know, as well as strategies for getting their meaning.<\/p>\n<p>A useful tool to help children develop their comprehension skills in these two languages is Cognate awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Cognates are words in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and pronunciation. Research has found young language learners can benefit tremendously from the fact that 30-40% of all words in English\u00a0 have a related word in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>The Color\u00edn Colorado website has a helpful\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorincolorado.org\/guide\/cognate-list-english-and-spanish\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">list of common cognates in Spanish\/English<\/a> for teachers to point out as they help children develop and build their vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Cognate-List-Colorin-Colorado.pdf\">Cognate-List Colorin Colorado<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognates help children recognize new words and understand their meaning. When teaching young learners an additional language (Spanish &amp; English) it is important for teachers to develop ways to help them identify the words they don&#8217;t know, as well as strategies for getting their meaning. A useful tool to help children develop their comprehension skills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educational","category-parenting","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16520,"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16435\/revisions\/16520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}