Question

What language activities do you feel would be especially helpful or enjoyable to use when interacting with preschool children? Describe at least two activities that would promote language in preschool children.

Answer 1

• Preschool language development is extremely important for making children develop necessary skills to use and understand language.Learning language skills need to be made enjoyable for them along with being educative in nature.Verbal skills need to be enhance when doing languahe activities in classrooms.
• For instance,a role play can be done in which children could be a given a toy telephone and they could be encouraged to talk on it with each other.They could be encouraged to use their imagination to talk with with other,this would surely help to develop their verbal communication skills.Even parents can be encouraged to do this activity at home,and talk to their chlildren over the phone.Parents and teachers could play patients and the child doctor and they can talk on the phone,encouraging the child to speak like a doctor and solve the problem.Its fun and innovative.
• Small groups can be made and some communication games can be played.This is another fun way to encourage language.A basket could be placed in the middle of the room,with some random items like a spoon,a toy animal,tea cups etc.and one child can be called to pick something from it and encouraged to tell a small story.They should not be interrupted when speaking because then they would feel nervous and think they are wrong.Let them speak whatever they want.