Childcare providers can assist children in their speech and language learning by providing a rich environment. This section has “how-to” tips to encourage from an early age vocabulary development, listening skills, conversation skills, language learning through play and the importance of culture and second languages.
- Asking Questions When Reading Books
Here are some questions you can use to get your child talking. - Average Grammar of the 4-Year Old Child
Here are some examples of sentences that an average 4 year old child might say. - Average Grammar of the Kindergarten-Aged Child
Here are some examples of sentences that an average kindergarten-aged child might say. - Books, Language and Toddlers
Books, language and toddlers. Books and reading are important for language development. - Building Blocks of Vocabulary
Here are some ways you can start building your child's vocabulary. - Building Listening Skills for Following Directions
Here are some ways you can help your child develop his listening skills for following directions. - Early Building Blocks of Communication: Repeat
Early Building Blocks of Communication Repeat. - Early Building Blocks of Communication: Songs and Fingerplay
Early Building Blocks of Communication. Songs and Fingerplay. - Early Building Blocks of Communication: Words & Concepts
Early Building Blocks of Communication. Words and Concepts. - Expanding Your Child's Vocabulary
Expanding Your Child's Vocabulary. - Fun With Sounds
Fun with sounds. Speech and language. - Great Ideas for Grammar
Great ideas for grammar. Speech and language. - Helping Children Follow Directions
Great Ideas for Speech. Speech and language. - Learning New Sounds
A child learns new sounds by listening. You can help your child learn new sounds by providing many opportunities to hear new sounds. - Let's Talk about Talking
Let's Talk about Talking. Speech and language. - Literacy and Language Learning
The development of literacy (reading and writing) and language are both continuous, life-long and begin at birth. - Play is Important for Learning Language
While children play for fun, they are also performing important work - play helps to build the brain, creating denser webs of neural connections. - Playing with Sounds
Playing with sounds will help your child learn to read. - Sequence for Training Speech Sounds
At each step, start by having your child copy you saying the sound. This helps your child see how you form the sound. - Supporting Literacy and Language Learning for Preschoolers (3 to 5 years)
Let your preschooler choose his own books at the library. He may pick the same books over and over. That's OK. Hearing you read the same book many times reinforces a number of language skills. - Supporting Literacy and Language Learning with Babies (Birth to 12 months)
You can read anything out loud to newborn babies. They are more interested in listening to the sound of your voice than the actual words you are reading. - Supporting Literacy and Language Learning with Toddlers (1-3 years)
When the same words and phrases are repeated over and over in books it makes the book fun to listen to and reinforces language learning. - Using Storybooks to Build Your Preschooler's Language
Using Storybooks to Build Your Preschoolers language. Speech and language. - What You Can Do To Help a Child with Dysfluent Speech
There are several ways you can help a child to speak more smoothly.
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