Vocabulary and Semantic Skills Development Kit This Vocabulary and Semantic Skills Development Kit is designed to stimulate language through the use of new vocabulary, to express and understand words and their relationships, and to engage in some initial phonological games. It can be used in educational settings (in preschool or first grade of primary school), to design adaptations in educational inclusion processes, in psychopedagogical and/or speech therapy clinics, and also at home as a playful proposal for initial cognitive stimulation. It consists of a large number of illustrations with common vocabulary among young children and cards with semantic categories and subcategories. It also includes cards with different instructions and game suggestions, which can be selected according to the objectives of each intervention. This material forms a collection of teaching materials that aim to develop cognitive skills involved in language that will enable reading, writing, strategies to achieve reading fluency, and language comprehension.

Vocabulary and Semantic Skills: Vocabulary is the set of words that make up a person's language. These words are incorporated from an early age through play and interaction with others. The first spoken words mark a very important milestone, and it is from there that the continuous acquisition of new vocabulary begins. Along with vocabulary, semantic skills develop. These refer to the knowledge and understanding of the meaning of different words and their combinations to form sentences. For this, we rely on contextual clues that help us group a certain set of words. For this, interactive experiences with others are fundamental, starting with play scenes at home and/or nurseries. There, it is important to provide materials, experiences, and environments that enable expression, comprehension, and dialogue. It is advisable to play games involving words, to thus build categories of objects with certain qualities that link them to each other. From these games, children will be able to understand and express more complex ideas. It is suggested to start by stimulating vocabulary related to concrete and everyday objects, and then gradually move on to unknown objects or abstract concepts such as actions or relationships between them. For example, one could start with animals or plants if the child lives in an environment surrounded by nature.