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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
February 2019 calendar & worksheet
Is available from https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/calendars-and-worksheets-6145231. Using the calendars and worksheets with your students will really help to develop the concept of how we organise the months and years. The passing of the seasons and different special days provide an opportunity for … Continue reading
January 2019 calendar & worksheet
Is available from https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/calendars-and-worksheets-6145231. Using the calendars and worksheets with your students will really help to develop the concept of how we organise the months and years. The passing of the seasons and different special days provide an opportunity for … Continue reading
November & December calendars & worksheets
Are available from https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/calendars-and-worksheets-6145231. Sorry November is a bit delayed. Using these calendars and worksheets with your students will really help to develop the concept of how we organise the months and years. The passing of the seasons and different … Continue reading
October calendar & worksheet
Is available from https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/calendars-and-worksheets-6145231 Using these calendars and worksheets with your students will really help to develop the concept of how we organise the months and years. The passing of the seasons and different special days provide an opportunity for … Continue reading
September calendar & worksheet
Is available from https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/calendars-and-worksheets-6145231 Using these calendars and worksheets with your students will really help to develop the concept of how we organise the months and years. The passing of the seasons and different special days provide an opportunity for … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
