Tips for Learning Language
Moving Words
- Talk about what your child is doing
- Tell your child what you are doing
- Play moving games: kick, blow bubbles, hit a balloon, clap your hands
- Help your child experience the action
Moving to Learn
- Crawl under a table, through a box, or over a mound of pillows
- Get in and out of a tire
- Get on and off of a stool
- Pretend to be an animal, move and sound like it
New Words
- Use gestures and pictures to help learn new words like "bye-bye," or "give me"
- Learning is easier and more fun in natural situations—kick, birds, up, down
- Say it again and again
- Put a picture on each doorway and label it each time you pass through
- Help with chores—folding, labeling, sorting
REFERENCE: PARENT ARTICLES, COMMUNICATION SKILL BUILDERS |
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Maryland State Department of Education |
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