1st Edition

Language Development 1a Activities for Home

By Marion Nash, Jackie Lowe Copyright 2004
    86 Pages
    by David Fulton Publishers

    86 Pages
    by David Fulton Publishers

    First Published in 2005. This book builds on the success of Language Development - Circle time sessions to improve communication skills by extending the Spirals programme into the home. All practitioners recognise the importance of family support, and parents and carers often appreciate being given a raft of good ideas for supplementary games and activities that will help their child in nursery and school. This handbook contains a variety of play-based activities that support the key language skills being developed in school, but that also stand alone as ways of having fun while consolidating language skills at home (and in the park, supermarket or walking to school). There is a clear structure and progression of ideas, with supporting line drawings to act as prompts, and a simple record-keeping system to support home-school communication. This is an invaluable book for early years practitioners; professionals working with children in a clinic or one to one setting; teachers, SLTs and teaching assistants in Key Stage I; and SENCOs working with children in KS2 who have speech and language difficulties.

    Chapter 1 Ideas for Home : Play the hiding under game; Chapter 2 Ideas for Home : Play the listening game; Chapter 3 Ideas for Home : Play the moving over game; Chapter 4 Ideas for Home : Play the standing on game; Chapter 5 Ideas for Home : Play the big and little game; Chapter 6 Ideas for Home : Play the under game; Chapter 7 Ideas for Home : Play the up and down game; Chapter 8 Ideas for Home : Play the on and under game; Chapter 9 Ideas for Home : Play another listening game; Chapter 10 Ideas for Home : Play the listen and do game; Chapter 11 Ideas for Home : Play the making different sounds game; Chapter 12 Ideas for Home : Play the top and bottom game; Chapter 13 Ideas for Home : Play the taking turns game; Chapter 14 Ideas for Home : Play the happy and sad game; Chapter 15 Ideas for Home : The rhyming words game; Chapter 16 Ideas for Home : Play the hiding game: behind; Chapter 17 Ideas for Home : Play the hiding game: in front; Chapter 18 Ideas for Home : Play the hiding game; Chapter 19 Ideas for Home : Sounds and words; Chapter 20 Ideas for Home : The question game: Who?; Chapter 21 Ideas for Home : The middle game; Chapter 22 Ideas for Home : The question game: Where?; Chapter 23 Ideas for Home : Exploring feeling words; Chapter 24 Ideas for Home : More middle games; Chapter 25 Ideas for Home : Play the tapping the beat game; Chapter 26 Ideas for Home : More beat tapping: guess the object game; Chapter 27 Ideas for Home : Storylines; Chapter 28 Ideas for Home : Listen, remember and do games; Chapter 29 Ideas for Home : Sequencing life events; Chapter 30 Ideas for Home : The question game: When?; Chapter 31 Ideas for Home : Exploring feeling words; Chapter 32 Ideas for Home : Rhyming word games; Chapter 33 Ideas for Home : Play the story game; Chapter 34 Ideas for Home : The word pair game; Chapter 35 Ideas for Home : Now you tell me a story; Chapter 36 Ideas for Home : Exploring feelings;

    Biography

    Marion Nash is an Educational Psychologist working for Plymouth Psychology Service. Jackie Lowe is a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (Early Years) working for Plymouth PCT.