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Originally Posted by janet85
Ive got to write 4 play opportunities and how i would put them into practice to support speech , language and communication . Im a little stuck on ideas any help would be appreciated . thank you  |
I think the easiest is to model and comment on their play, the children learn best from their own interested activity and they have chosen their activity themselves
we also did this and this incorporated speech, communication and language:
you need things of interest to talk about, this is where activities come into place providing they are of the child’s interests. Books play a big part in children’s speech. We have recently shared the book the very hungry caterpillar which the children love to listen to. We extended this by providing a butterfly garden with very small and hungry caterpillars (5 in total), the children loved listening to the book and joining in with the words, they then experienced the factual side of this by watching and exploring new words such as cocoon, eating a nice green leaf to help his/her stomach ache (children saying that the green leaf was medicine for the caterpillar). Talking about what the caterpillars turn into and watching the butterflies being released, this extended every child’s communication and knowledge in one way or another. We also expanded this with a cd and book with the cd unit for them to listen to when they wanted too, we also had the story sack complete with all props for the children to interact with. We also provide designing and mark making equipment in the creative area to encourage them to write as a form of communicating (probably for the older children more but some younger children participated too). You can also incorporate songs for a child to communicate which we sang to the children and the children joined in the song was called “there’s a tiny caterpillar on a leaf wriggle, wriggle” with actions if they didn’t want to participate in singing.
Lynne