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- SoundWhat Did You Say?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. Review a picture book or magazine with your c...
- StutteringHow to Help a Preschooler Who StuttersHow to Help a Preschooler Who Stutters You may be concerned if your preschooler starts to stutter and stammer a lot. Don't worry about it. Stuttering and stammering are common at this age due to the lag between a three-year-old's ability to thi...
- TantrumsThree-Year-Old Cries All the TimeThree-year-olds aren't able use words at all times when they are angry, frustrated, or frightened. ...
- VocabularySharing Adventures: Reading to Your Two-Year-OldSharing Adventures: Reading to Your Two-Year-Old Two is a terrific age for reading to your child. Your toddler wants to build her vocabulary and will eagerly sit to hear stories that offer her new words to learn. But reading books to your todd...
- VocabularyYour Toddler's Development: Building VocabularyYour Toddler's Development: Building Vocabulary One thing about most two-year-olds: You can't get them to shut up. Your toddler is constantly talking, talking, talking. Your child wants you to understand her experience, just as she herself is be...
- Learning Disabilities PrintablesCharacteristics Checklist for Asperger's Syndrome: Language SkillsPrint out and use this checklist to help in an initial diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome in your child. You can find more checklists on Asperger's syndrome here. ...
- SpeechThree-Year-Old Doesn't TalkSpeech delays should be investigated sooner rather than later. ...
- Food and Nutrition PrintablesNutrition -- DefinitionsPrint out this list of nutrition vocabulary words and ask your children to define them. They can practice their research skills by using the dictionary to look up any words they do not know. ...
- VocabularyDictionary Name GameDictionary Name Game Required: Dictionary Pen and paper What's in a name? A great opportunity for learning new words—with the help of a dictionary. During breakfast, snack time, or any time you and your child want to expand your vocabularies a...
- VocabularyAction WordsAction WordsDirectionsIntroduce these words to your child and both of you do the actions together STRETCH, LEAP, SLIDE, RUN, CRAWL, FALL, SPIN, and TURN. Once your child understands what each word means and how to do the action, put on music and ...
- Communicating With Your ToddlerHow to Have a Conversation with Your Three-Year-OldHow to Have a Conversation with Your Three-Year-Old Your child's improving language skills, combined with his increased attention span, makes sustained conversations possible at age three. And the more conversation, the better. Your modeling o...
- Family GamesNonstop TalkNonstop TalkMaterials Kitchen timer or clock Directions The object of this game is to talk nonstop for one minute about a chosen subject. Everyone writes one or two subjects on a piece of paper and puts them in a hat. Divide into two teams. You ...
- Language DevelopmentThree to Six Years: Dietary and Developmental HighlightsThree to Six Years: Dietary and Developmental HighlightsAround three, children become increasingly social, more independent, and even more fun to be with than they were before. Preschoolers are particularly playful people who can be quite jovial ...
- Early Learning ActivitiesMagic BagMagic BagTime 10 to 15 minutes Materials Old purseSmall items that can't be swallowed, like model cars, playing cards, animal cookies, old key sets, little books Directions Your child will want to share the wonder of each discovery if you fill a...
- Vocabulary PrintablesSilly SentencesFinish the very silly sentences in this printable and you will reveal tongue twisters. ...
- Language DevelopmentBackward DayBackward DayTime All day Materials Common items used for self-care Directions Do your day backward. For example, you might begin the day with dinner, brush your teeth before you eat, put on your shoes before your shirt, or comb your hair and the...
- VocabularyAbbreviate ItAbbreviate ItTime 10 to 15 minutes Materials None Directions Teach the concept of abbreviating in a playful way. One of you thinks of two letters that the other has to turn into a phrase that matches the abbreviation. For example, FS could mean ...
- Writing ActivitiesAnagrams ActivityAnagrams ActivityAnagrams are pairs or groups of words that use exactly the same letters in different order, for example: pills/spill and eat/tea. Directions The following games are fun ways to play with anagrams. They may be tough for beginning...Trish Kuffner, author of The Children's Busy Book