Tag Archives: Learning to mean

Year of the Fairy Tale

Posted on 12/09/2020 by languageisheartosay

Winter will be here before we know it and is surely the season for fairy tales. Don’t forget the availability of these much loved stories which we worked hard to present at different levels of complexity for youngsters of different … Continue reading →

Posted in Child language, Competence level, ESL / EFL / EAL, Helping children understand, Promoting language development, Teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged Carla Sonheim, Fairy tales, Getting meaning from pictures, Home schooling, Learning to mean, Pip Harrison | Comments Off

December calendar & worksheet

Posted on 13/10/2019 by languageisheartosay

The next calendar and worksheet are available from https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/calendars-and-worksheets-6145231 This will be the last of the monthly calendars. I have been making them since January 2012 I think and there have been 25579 downloads to date! Both my first desktop … Continue reading →

Posted in ESL / EFL / EAL, Helping children understand, Promoting language development, Teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged language development, Learning to mean, seasons, weather | Comments Off

Black Sheep Press

Posted on 09/08/2017 by languageisheartosay

Black Sheep Press has a new website with lots of exciting changes and improved features. You can visit it here. I used many of the resources from Black Sheep Press while I was working with young children. The company publishes … Continue reading →

Posted in Association, Child language, Competence level, Education at home, ESL / EFL / EAL, Grammar, Helping children understand, Inference, Promoting language development, Speech & Language Pathology, Speech & Language Therapy, Teaching | Tagged Black Sheep Press, Getting meaning from pictures, Learning to mean, Making it easier, Mr Goodguess | Comments Off

Pronouns

Posted on 08/10/2015 by languageisheartosay

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 | Comments Off

Modigliani portraits

Posted on 01/08/2015 by languageisheartosay

Here are my examples from lesson 6. Good vocabulary possibilities: Yesterday the page was divided down the middle. Today the background space is divided by lines drawn down and then across. The rectangles are fairly random. A coloured line is … Continue reading →

Posted in Child language, Competence level, ESL / EFL / EAL, Helping children understand, Helping language skills at home, Promoting language development, Speech & Language Pathology, Speech & Language Therapy, Teaching | Tagged Carla Sonheim, Idiom & metaphor, language development, Learning to mean, new vocabulary | Comments Off

Oil pastel and paint people

Posted on 31/07/2015 by languageisheartosay

Here are my examples from lesson 5. I didn’t have enough black paper to make the expected size and I made them much too small so could not add the suggested extra decorations. I also had to use Cray-Pas as … Continue reading →

Posted in Child language, Competence level, ESL / EFL / EAL, Helping children understand, Helping language skills at home, Promoting language development, Speech & Language Pathology, Speech & Language Therapy, Teaching | Tagged Carla Sonheim, Diane Culhane, Getting meaning from pictures, Idiom & metaphor, language development, Learning to mean, new vocabulary | Comments Off

Nature faces

Posted on 31/07/2015 by languageisheartosay

Here are my faces made from a few things I picked up in the garden or saw on my table. It was fun to see how spacing the eyes differently changed the face a lot. Vocabulary about the faces: naming … Continue reading →

Posted in Child language, Competence level, ESL / EFL / EAL, Helping children understand, Helping language skills at home, Promoting language development, Speech & Language Pathology, Speech & Language Therapy, Teaching | Tagged Carla Sonheim, Describing vocabulary, Emotions, Idiom & metaphor, language development, Learning to mean, Lynn Whipple, US English versus UK English | Comments Off

Leaf printing

Posted on 29/07/2015 by languageisheartosay

Here are my tags decorated with leaf prints in lesson 3. I made some prints into birds and others into bugs as suggested. Good vocabulary possibilities: Birds: talk again about how we know they are birds – refer back … Continue reading →

Night sky

Posted on 29/07/2015 by languageisheartosay

Here are my night sky pictures from lesson 2. Good vocabulary possibilities: Adjectives: you may have a copy of The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark which is often read in school. It contains many ‘wow words’ which are … Continue reading →

Posted in Child language, Competence level, ESL / EFL / EAL, Helping children understand, Helping language skills at home, Promoting language development, Speech & Language Pathology, Speech & Language Therapy, Teaching | Tagged Carla Sonheim, Diane Culhane, Idiom & metaphor, language development, Learning to mean, The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark, What kids say | Comments Off

It’s dinner time!

Posted on 01/03/2015 by languageisheartosay

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 →

Posted in Child language, Competence level, Grammar, Speech & Language Pathology, Speech & Language Therapy | Tagged language development, Learning to mean, What kids say | Comments Off

Dr. Marion Blank

Posted on 26/02/2015 by languageisheartosay

The language style used by adults to children in the preschool and early school years is critical. (Post reissued)

Posted in Child language, Competence level, Grammar, Helping children understand, Marion Blank, Promoting language development, Speech & Language Pathology, Speech & Language Therapy, Teaching | Tagged language development, Learning to mean, S&LT, SLP | Comments Off

The Twelve Brothers

Posted on 13/08/2014 by languageisheartosay

“…As the young men pushed open the gate, she picked the twelve flowers. With each snip one young man after the other rose up from the garden, arms turning to great black wings, noses to beaks, legs to claws – … Continue reading →

Posted in Grammar, Helping children understand, Inference, Promoting language development, Share stories, Speech & Language Pathology, Speech & Language Therapy, Teaching | Tagged language development, Learning to mean, S&LT, SLP | Comments Off

Little Red Riding Hood

Posted on 04/05/2014 by languageisheartosay

“Shall I walk with you?” said the wolf. “Oh, no, sir, thank you. I can quite well walk by myself and I expect you have wolf things to be getting on with.” “Well, there is one wolf thing I could … Continue reading →

Woolgathering in the windmills of my mind

Posted on 18/11/2012 by languageisheartosay

Today I looked out and it was a wonderful autumn day: blue cloudless sky, no wind and I went to Wisley. On my way there, I heard several updates about wars and rumours of wars on the car radio but … Continue reading →

Posted in Association, Child language, Speech & Language Pathology, Speech & Language Therapy | Tagged Analogy, Idiom & metaphor, Learning to mean, S&LT, SLP, What kids say | Comments Off

Can you see what I mean?

Posted on 06/11/2012 by languageisheartosay

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 →

Posted in Child language, Competence level, Grammar, Helping children understand, Inference, Promoting language development, Teaching | Tagged Getting meaning from pictures, language development, Learning to mean, S&LT, SLP | Comments Off

Citroen alert!

Posted on 12/09/2012 by languageisheartosay

‘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 →

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Choose your martyrdom

Posted on 30/04/2012 by languageisheartosay

Would you rather be pressed like St. Margaret Clitherow or hanged like St. Anne Line? How does your school inform small children of their fate? Will the Head tell a 6 year old he is going to be put in … Continue reading →

Posted in Child language, Competence level, Helping children understand, Inference | Tagged Idiom & metaphor, language development, Learning to mean, What kids say | Comments Off

A real there there

Posted on 19/01/2012 by languageisheartosay

My grammar check immediately spots I have repeated a word, but never mind! As soon as I heard this wonderful new noun (a ‘there-there’), I found it captivating. How much more immediate than solace or consolation. Other recent activity has … Continue reading →

Posted in Grammar, Helping children understand, Inference, Promoting language development, Teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged Analogy, Idiom & metaphor, Learning to mean, US English versus UK English | Comments Off

That’s very funny!

Posted on 22/12/2011 by languageisheartosay

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 →

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I smell a rat…

Posted on 03/12/2011 by languageisheartosay

I see it floating in the air; I’ll nip it in the bud! From English Language lessons many years ago this Mixed Metaphor sprang to mind when I heard another lovely example on the radio recently: ‘We’ve opened the Pandora’s … Continue reading →

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Let’s not add to confusion

Posted on 30/09/2011 by languageisheartosay

English is very open to misunderstanding because of the number of homophones we have. Some are not spelt the same way – but when you hear examples there is scope for confusion – and of course non-readers cannot visualise both … Continue reading →

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Keeping text simple

Posted on 02/01/2011 by languageisheartosay

It can’t be hard to make things simpler… can it? Well, actually, it can be quite tricky. Creating or adapting resources for children with language impairment can take a long time. Not only that. After using the resources it may … Continue reading →

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Are you listening to me?

Posted on 20/09/2010 by languageisheartosay

This is normally said in exasperation when a child has not jumped into action at the first time of telling. It is often swiftly followed by I won’t tell you again… which may mean either I will tell you again … Continue reading →

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2-word and 3-word levels

Posted on 28/08/2010 by languageisheartosay

It may not sound much but…

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