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What Did You Say?

Enhance your child's listening skills and auditory discrimination with this silly activity.

What Did You Say?

Activity for an individual child

Age group: 30-40 months

Duration of activity: 15 minutes

Enhance your child's listening skills and auditory discrimination with this silly activity.

  1. Review a picture book or magazine with your child.
  2. As you are browsing the pictures, point to different objects and identify them. Ask your child to listen closely.
  3. On occasion, intentionally misidentify a picture. For example, point to a picture of a car and say "can," or point to a picture of a boat and say "goat."
  4. Have your child stop you when she catches you making a mistake. Ask her to say the word correctly.

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