October Preschool Speech Activities You Can Do At Home
Three activity ideas you can do with your preschooler to boost their speech and language skills.
1: Describing
Stating the function of objects means telling what they do or what you do with them. This helps to build vocabulary and skills for describing. Our natural response to these questions is just to point out the answer. It’s fine to keep this way of answering natural. We don’t want to train kids to sound like little robots. However, after they have shown you they know the functions, go back and make a sentences for each picture,
2: Taking Turns
Take Turns Following Directions. Some kids need extra practice to follow directions. Choose an action on the left and an action on the right. Can your child remember and do them both? Switch and let them choose and give you directions. Do they know if you did it right or wrong? Challenge: Add one more action to make it a three-step direction.
3: Associations
Whose is that? Can your child match an object with who it belongs to? This is helping them make associations, or finding connections between two related things.
This activity also gives you an opportunity to practice occupation vocabulary and less common nouns like x-ray and broom.
