A brief introduction of strategies for early grade learner language development. Helpful for early grade teachers

1. Language
Development
in Early Years
Naureen Faisal
SIPD

2. What is Language Development
– Language development is the process by
which children come to understand and
communicate language during early
childhood.

3. Early Listening and Speaking
– Total Physical Response (TPR)
– Spot the differences
– Object OR Picture Description
– Role Play and Dialogue Practice

4. TPR
– Following Instructions
– Act to identify Vowels or consonant
– Walk the Talk
– Weird Vocabulary
– Vocabulary Introduction (Visit to a ZOO)
– Storytelling
– Rhymes

5. Spot the differences

6. Picture Description
Share a sentence for each picture.

7. Role Play and Dialogue Practice

8. Early Reading
– Phonemic awareness (Beginning/ middle/ ending sound identification)
– Letter recognition
– Decoding (Sound out)
– Blending (Bl, Sm, Sn, ck…)
– Sight word recognition
– Rhyming Words (log, dog, fog/ cat, bat, sat, mat etc)

9. Pre- Writing Activities

10. Early Writing
– Colouring
– Writing Pattern
– Letter Writing
– Free Writing
– Descriptive Writing

12. Free Writing Task
–My Favourite_____

13. Descriptive Writing
Describe Popcorn
– Taste (salty, buttery)
– Smell (sweet, buttery, delicious)
– Looks (bumpy, yellow and white)
– Sounds (crunchy)
– Feels (melty, warm, greasy)