Talk with your child. Your modeled communication provides an important framework for your child’s vocabulary and sentence structure.
Talk about everything you do throughout the day. Label actions and objects in your environment. Use everyday experiences to stimulate language. Simple statements such as, “First we are going to make breakfast. After breakfast, we are going to wash the dishes,” provides basic vocabulary (nouns, verbs) for your child. Additionally, you are modeling sequencing by using words such as "first, after” and a model for the structure of the sentences. When you talk with your child you are enhancing language skills and you are also allowing your child to hear the sounds of speech
Provide stimulating experiences to encourage language development. Take a trip to the zoo, a farm, or the park. Go camping, go on a picnic, or take a hike together. Clean the house, do yard work or go shopping together. And talk about what you are doing together. Talk about it. Read about it. Write about it. Draw pictures about it.
Click below for more ideas from Super Duper Publications on how you can help enhance your child’s speech and language skills:
Building Early Literacy
Are My Child’s Language Skills Developing Normally?
Is My Child Ready for Kindergarten?
Vocabulary Development
Talk about everything you do throughout the day. Label actions and objects in your environment. Use everyday experiences to stimulate language. Simple statements such as, “First we are going to make breakfast. After breakfast, we are going to wash the dishes,” provides basic vocabulary (nouns, verbs) for your child. Additionally, you are modeling sequencing by using words such as "first, after” and a model for the structure of the sentences. When you talk with your child you are enhancing language skills and you are also allowing your child to hear the sounds of speech
Provide stimulating experiences to encourage language development. Take a trip to the zoo, a farm, or the park. Go camping, go on a picnic, or take a hike together. Clean the house, do yard work or go shopping together. And talk about what you are doing together. Talk about it. Read about it. Write about it. Draw pictures about it.
Click below for more ideas from Super Duper Publications on how you can help enhance your child’s speech and language skills:
Building Early Literacy
Are My Child’s Language Skills Developing Normally?
Is My Child Ready for Kindergarten?
Vocabulary Development