Activities to Promote Language Skills
Ways to promote language skills:
- Talk to your child often.
- Read a variety of books to your child. ·
- Talk about the stories together.
- Talk about how things are the same and different.
- Help your child listen to sound patterns in words; rhyming games are good for this.
- Ask your child to tell you 1 or 2 things that happen each day.
- Talk about new words you hear.
- Do projects with your child like arts/crafts, folding laundry or washing the car. As you work together talk about
what you’re doing. Give child directions to follow.
Games to Enhance Language Skills:
Title: I Spy Preschool Game
Ages: 3 – 6
Description: Youngsters search for hidden objects, match pairs, and assemble interlocking matching pairs.
Skills: listening comprehension, rhyming, matching, describing
Title: Secret Square
Ages: 4 – 12
Description: Players ask yes/no questions to determine which picture is the secret square.
Skills: vocabulary knowledge, asking questions, thinking skills
Title: Stare! Junior Edition
Ages: 6 – 12
Description: Individuals or teams stare at an image on a card for 30 seconds (more challenging games can be played by shortening the time) and then answer questions about what they saw.
Skills: visual memory, answering questions, recalling information
Title: I Spy Preschool Game
Ages: 3 – 6
Description: Youngsters search for hidden objects, match pairs, and assemble interlocking matching pairs.
Skills: listening comprehension, rhyming, matching, describing
Title: Secret Square
Ages: 4 – 12
Description: Players ask yes/no questions to determine which picture is the secret square.
Skills: vocabulary knowledge, asking questions, thinking skills
Title: Stare! Junior Edition
Ages: 6 – 12
Description: Individuals or teams stare at an image on a card for 30 seconds (more challenging games can be played by shortening the time) and then answer questions about what they saw.
Skills: visual memory, answering questions, recalling information