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Language Development for Pre-K Students

Language Development for Pre-K Students

Develop and expand listening skills

Teach the children to listen and follow directions
help the children to increase their vocabulary

Examples of appropriate materials or activities:
Choose a category (such as foods, animals or holidays) and have the children name as many examples of items in that category as they can.
Start a hand clapping pattern and ask the children to first listen to the pattern and then join in.
Playing a game of “Simon Says”.

Develop and expand speaking skills

Help the children learn to speak with the appropriate volume, tone and intensity.
Teach the children how to ask questions and share experiences individually and in groups.

Examples of appropriate materials or activities:

Read a story part of the way through and have your students predict what will happen next.
Provide role playing activities where different levels of volume are used such as when a baby is sleeping or when someone is calling to someone standing far away.
Allow the children to dictate stories to go along with wordless picture books.

Develop age-appropriate writing skills

Help the children to develop fine motor skills through manipulating a variety of materials.
Allow the children to participate in a variety of writing activities focusing on meaningful words in the environment.

Examples of appropriate materials or activities:
Display alphabets at the children's eye level at various areas of the classroom
Provide opportunities for the children to draw or write using materials such as feathers, erasable tablets, zip-lock bags filled with shaving cream.
Foster fine motor skills by incorporating finger plays, play dough, eye droppers, tearing paper, scissors, or puzzles into your daily lesson plans.

Develop age-appropriate strategies that will assist the students in reading
Allow the children to tell and retell stories and poems.
Allow the children to hear literature and other print being read or told on a daily basis.
Teach the children to associate symbols with objects, concepts and functions and respond to these symbols in their environment.

Examples of appropriate materials or activities:

Choose quality childrens' literature to read aloud. Your children seem to particularly enjoy those books that make use of rhyme, rhythm, and/or repetition.
Use materials in your environment to create an I Can Read book. Cut out logos from fast food restaurants and write the name below it. Cut out logos from household and food products. Glue the logos to construction paper, add construction paper covers and bind.
Introduce letters to the class through writing words that normally occur in classroom discussions, such as letters childrens' names begin with, the letter the names of the month and holidays begin with, and topics that children enjoy. Such as “S” would occur in discussions of September, Santa, snow, spring, summer, sun, etc.

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