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Tag Archives: Making it easier
Black Sheep Press
Black Sheep Press has a new website with lots of exciting changes and improved features. You can visit it here. Special offers are available until 20th August. I used many of the resources from Black Sheep Press while I was … 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
More fairy tales with Language Levels questions
The tenth title in the Using Language Levels series is available at £2 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
New Language Levels resource
The sixth title in the Using Language Levels series is available at £2 from TES. Entitled The Park, it offers the usual varied set of activities as well as providing a good basis for discussing a place which is familiar … 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
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
Using Language Levels: new resources
I see searches for information about Dr. Marion Blank’s Language Levels just about every day. So I have been working on some new resources which feature graded questions of the sort included in Language Levels I-IV. Each set of story … Continue reading
Posted in Child language, Competence level, Education at home, ESL / EFL / EAL, 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 Getting meaning from pictures, Making it easier, S<, seaside, seasons, SLP, vehicles, weather
Let’s not add to confusion
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
What do you know?
A friend said she would enjoy teaching older people to use the computer but she was not an expert herself. Since she runs a big office, regularly sends emails and writes documents every day, she has obviously achieved excellent competence … Continue reading
Posted in Competence level, Teaching
Tagged Making it easier
Keep speech simple too
It’s not just print that needs adapting – even talk can be confusing! The words we use, the speed we go, the in-between time – all these will influence how much a child understands. Especially the child with delayed or … Continue reading
Keeping text simple
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
