- Encourage Peer-to-Peer Conversations
- Promote Choice Making
- Narrate Events
- Present Vocabulary with Pictures or Objects
- Use Specific Language
- Create Silly Situations
- Provide Opportunities where Help is Needed
- Model Desired Response
- Alter Routines
- Expand Child’s Response
As you go through the ten activities, consider your daily routines and how you currently incorporate language and vocabulary. These activities are ways to take advantage of every opportunity to build language when you are interacting with your children throughout the day. For example, during center time, you could promote choice making by helping children decide between the block center and the dramatic play center. You could narrate daily events by stating what the children are doing as they clean up and form a line when preparing to go outside. While outside, you could model how to make a request when wanting to take a turn on the swing. Now you will read about the ten activities for promoting language in preschoolers.
The
Observation Sheet can be printed out and used as a guide while
you watch the VPK teachers and children. We encourage you to return to
the video as often as needed in order to complete the Observation Sheet.
After you view three or four of the videos there will be a review activity and reflection questions to support the understanding of these language activities.
