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Talk Read and Sing Together Every Day!

Here are four key strategies to engage children in thick conversations in English or in their home language: 1 Encourage back-and-forth exchanges • Tune into children’s interests and experiences and talk about them • Take turns communicating • Show that you are interested in what they are doing and listening to what they say

How can I help my child develop language skills?
When the youngest children know that their voices are heard and valued, early foundational language development is supported. Here are three ways you can help children develop the sophisticated language skills they need to succeed, in your classroom and in the wider world. 1. Use books to build vocabulary.
Why is language development important in early childhood education?
Helping children build vocabulary and develop language skills to get what they need and want is a key teaching task in the early childhood classroom. So many important developmental tasks are tied to children’s ability to access and use language in the right ways at the right time.
How can early childhood teachers help children develop literacy?
All children should be encouraged to ask questions about their world and be supported in developing the literacy tools (along with broad knowledge, inquiring minds, and other tools!) to answer those questions. All children should see themselves in books that rejoice in learning. Early childhood teachers play a key role as children develop literacy.

Ages and Stages of Language Development

Babies start learning to recognise language even while they’re in the womb. Research has shown that they remember stories that they were read while they were in utero, as well as recognising their mother’s voice (DeCasper and Fifer, 1980, 1986; Kisilevsky et al., 2003). Once they’re born, their development tends to progress through the following st

Communication and Language in The EYFS

If you are an early years worker, you can also use the Early Years Foundation Stages (EYFS) to measure a child or baby’s development. The early learning goals for communication and language are: 1. Listening and attention– including the ability to discriminate sounds and maintain and monitor attention in a shared context, and being able to anticipa

Types of Language Problems

Children might experience any of the following issues: 1. Language delay– where they are developing along the normal lines, but are slightly behind the average in achieving each milestone. This is the most common developmental delay in children, and more than half of language delays in children under three resolve themselves. 2. Developmental Langu

Symptoms of Language Problems

Symptoms that could indicate a language problem include: 1. Lack of attention when being spoken to – easily distracted. 2. Failing to carry out simple tasks or instructions (when old enough to understand these instructions). 3. Poor eye contact. 4. Speech that is extremely difficult to understand – only comprehensible 50% of the time. 5. Uninterest

What Should I Do If I Suspect A Problem?

It’s important to act if you suspect a language problem, because delayed language development can cause frustration for you and the child, as well as difficulties learning and making friends, and behavioural problems. On the other hand, early intervention can be extremely helpful and mitigate any effects of the delay or disorder. If you are worried

Be A Good Role Model

Since children often learn by observing and copying adults, you need to ensure that you are modelling good speech and language skills as much as possible, including: 1. Speaking slowly, so that children have time to process the information you give them, as well as clearly and calmly. 2. Using short sentencesso that they aren’t overwhelmed with lan

Read to Them

Reading in early years is extremely effective for language development – it also has many other benefits, as you can find out in our article ‘Why is Reading Important for Children?’. Try to read books every day if you can – it is even useful for babies under six months, but is particularly effective as they get older. When you read, point to the wo

Talk Together

Naturally, talking to a child as much as you can will assist their language development. It’s important to talk to them even when they can’t talk to you – from birth, you should chat about what you’re doing and ask them questions, responding to any gestures or noises they make as if they’ve spoken a sentence. This teaches them how conversations wor

Sing with Them

Singing is particularly important for babies and younger children – it can really help their language development by supporting them in differentiating sounds, recognising rhymes, improving their memories, and broadening their vocabularies. Just as with reading, pause before the end of a song line, getting the children to fill in the gap – for exam

Play Describing, Guessing, and Turn-Taking Games

Games are great language activities that you can try out. You could try: 1. Getting the children to feel a hidden object and describe it so that the others can guess what it is. 2. Playing ‘what am I?’, where you describe an object and the children have to guess it – for example, ‘I have four legs and I’m a pet, I like to bark’. 3. Playing I Spy. 4

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