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Tag Archives: language development
March 2019 calendar & worksheet
The next calendar and worksheet are available from https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/calendars-and-worksheets-6145231. Today (5th February) I happened to hear a programme on Radio 4 at 11 a.m. called Why Can’t Our Children Talk? It was a bit depressing. My resources on TES were … Continue reading
Posted in Association, Child language, Competence level, Delayed language at school entry, Education at home, ESL / EFL / EAL, Helping children understand, Index of Resources, Language Levels, Promoting language development, Speech and Language Pathology, Speech and Language Therapy, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Getting meaning from pictures, language development, Learning to mean, Making it easier, new vocabulary, Object recognition, S<, SLP, symbol support, weather
Up and running again
I have put in hours of work to correct the out of date links on my blog and I hope now they are working properly! Sorry I hadn’t noticed there were heaps of errors. Trust the majority have got sorted … Continue reading
More fairy tales with Language Levels questions
The tenth title in the Using Language Levels series is available at £4* from TES. Entitled Fairy tales – 3, it offers a text for each tale, an extra activity, the Language Levels questions, a cover note and a record … Continue reading
Posted in Child language, Competence level, Education at home, ESL / EFL / EAL, Grammar, Helping children understand, Helping language skills at home, Home schooling, Inference, Language Levels, Marion Blank, Promoting language development, Speech and Language Pathology, Speech and Language Therapy, Teaching
Tagged friends, garden play, Getting meaning from pictures, language development, Learning to mean, Making it easier, Marion Blank, new vocabulary, weather
Pronouns
Further to a query on a forum on TES, I have picked out some of my resources which are particularly aimed at working on pronouns. Hope you find this helpful. See the Pronouns listing in the sidebar. Have also made … Continue reading
Posted in Child language, Competence level, Education at home, ESL / EFL / EAL, Grammar, Helping children understand, Helping language skills at home, Home schooling, Inference, Promoting language development, Speech and Language Pathology, Speech and Language Therapy, Teaching
Tagged Getting meaning from pictures, language development, Learning to mean, Pronouns
How did you get on?
I hope you were able to join in the Kids’ Art Week fun. My posts (see links below) include my own efforts at each activity plus a mini language lesson based on the videos etc. The art sessions are still … Continue reading
Posted in Child language, Competence level, Education at home, ESL / EFL / EAL, Helping children understand, Helping language skills at home, Home schooling, Language Levels, Marion Blank, Promoting language development, Speech and Language Pathology, Speech and Language Therapy, Teaching
Tagged All about me, Carla Sonheim, language development, Marion Blank, mini language lesson
Picasso dog
Here is my Picasso dog. Did you make some? Good vocabulary possibilities: Eye, nose, ear, tongue, paw, tail, (learning to name the parts of things is really important for clarity – see http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Naming-of-parts-6224211/ ) Talk about what’s missing from this … Continue reading
Crazy birds
Here are my crazy birds. Did you make some? Good vocabulary possibilities: bird beak tail claws wings feathers two legs (learning to name the parts of things is really important for clarity – see http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Naming-of-parts-6224211/ ) colour names and … Continue reading
Using Language Levels: Story 4 Friends
The story pictures are presented in three formats to increase the usefulness of the resources: with questions for each page at all the Levels (I-IV) in a smaller size for you to make additional activities in a story text – … Continue reading
Posted in Child language, Competence level, Education at home, ESL / EFL / EAL, Helping children understand, Helping language skills at home, Home schooling, Language Levels, Marion Blank, Promoting language development, Speech and Language Pathology, Speech and Language Therapy, Teaching
Tagged friends, garden play, Getting meaning from pictures, language development, Making it easier, new vocabulary, S<, SLP
It’s dinner time!
A 5-year-old lad had a nasty fall off his bike, ripped a fingernail and went to A&E to be patched up. In spite of this traumatic series of events, he suggested to his mum that they ask the doctor home … Continue reading
Dr. Marion Blank
The language style used by adults to children in the preschool and early school years is critical. (Post reissued)
Can you see what I mean?
This post is to highlight a published resource I designed but cannot put on TES (although I have a section of free resources there which you can find described on the page Read for Meaning/Inference in the list on the … Continue reading
Citroen alert!
‘Don’t like Citroen!’ ‘You don’t like Citroens? Why’s that?’ ‘Citroen run me down.’ The grandfather’s chuckle as he replied led me to believe that Citroens have not shown an evil disposition to attack his grandson. Indeed, it seemed unlikely from … Continue reading
That’s very funny!
The child’s voice rang out, all consonants crystal clear. Probably every adult in the surrounding pews had to resist the urge to turn round and engage with the little girl at the carol service. Communicating with attractive children who make … Continue reading
