Tips to help support your child's language skills:
When your child starts a conversation, give your full attention whenever possible.
When speaking to your child, make sure that you have your child's attention before you speak. Pause and wait after speaking. This gives your child a chance to continue the conversation.
Help expand your child’s vocabulary by introducing new words and explaining the meaning.
Read with your child by reading pictures ("picture walk") and words. Talk about what your child sees in the pictures and predict what might happen.
Use TV as a valuable tool. Talk about what your child is watching. Have your child guess what might happen next. Talk about how the characters are alike and different. Make up a different ending.
Use photos of familiar people and places, and recount experiences.
Language Activities
LISTENING COMPREHENSION STORIES AND QUESTIONS
FAMILY NOTE: The goal of listening to these short stories is improving language and listening comprehension skills.
Watch the video(s).
Depending on your child's reading level, read the questions to them and help them respond if needed.
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AUDIBLE STORIES AND STORIES READ BY CELEBRATED ACTORS
FAMILY NOTE: The goal of listening to these short stories is improving language and listening comprehension skills. There are a number of strategies to help promote listening comprehension. When listening to a story, one strategy that can be used is to create a "mind movie" by visualizing the story. Here's how you can practice this strategy with your child:
Select an Audible or Storyline Online story based on your child's level.
Encourage your child to create a "mind-movie" by thinking in pictures or visualizing the story while listening.
At the end of the story, encourage your child to use the retell graphic organizer to draw pictures from their "mind-movie" to show the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Use the pictures to retell the story.
More Language Activities
Video
Basic Concepts On, In, Under
Where is it?
Video
How to Do a Picture Reading Walk
Apps
Other Resources
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