Words sorted into categories
Lexikit now sorts words into categories, such as animals, clothes, fruit or jobs, for sorting and finding the odd one out.
Each word of the lexicon now knows its categories. Several resources use them: the sorting boxes, “Find the odd one out”, the category cards, and soon Happy Families.
Where the categories come from
The ARASAAC pictograms carry tags, such as “animal”, “farm” or “fruit”. Lexikit draws its categories from them and adds 22 more, which follow those worked on in preschool: forest animals, sea animals, farm animals, musical instruments.
A word can belong to several categories, as you would say in class: the rabbit is a farm animal and a pet.
One word, one meaning
With categories comes a rule of vocabulary that I follow throughout the app. A theme is a ready list to get started, around a situation: the canteen, autumn. A category says what a thing is: a fruit, an animal. A word family gathers the words that share the same root. These three notions are easily mixed up, and the curriculum asks to tell them apart.
