Themed stories are a fantastic way to build a student’s vocabulary knowledge. A combination of shared book reading and guided play is said to encourage deep vocabulary knowledge. A student’s semantic network is powerful in supporting a child’s reading ability and is acquired slowly over time. According to the National Reading Panel, vocabulary is a predictor of later decoding and reading comprehension abilities. Vocabulary knowledge is not something that can be acquired one by one rather it is the building of concepts that support one another. New words are better retained by when exposed to semantically related words. (Hadley, 2018).