Helen recently wrote about working on inferencing skills. You can read her post here. Today I am going to write about prediction skills. You are likely to see inferencing and prediction skills spoken about together and there are similarities between them. It is also highly likely that if you find one hard, you will also […]
This is the next in our series of posts about narrative therapy. If you have missed the other posts, do check out these links – introduction, who, where, when, what happened. In the last post in this series, Elizabeth talked about the “what happened” of the story. Obviously this is quite a large portion of […]
This is the next in our series of posts about narrative therapy. You can see the introduction, Part 1 – Who/character and Part 2 – Where/setting by clicking on the links. Today we are talking about the “when” or time of stories. Talking about the time in a story is important as part of setting […]
We all struggle to talk about how we feel. It’s complicated and often difficult to find the words that most clearly express what we want to say. This is even more difficult for children, and especially children with language difficulties. There are so many words to describe feelings and they often have subtly different meanings […]
We have started a series of posts looking at high level language skills. As children get older, language and its demands become more sophisticated. It is often around Junior school age that these more subtle language difficulties can become apparent. You can read Helen’s post about understanding and supporting words with multiple meanings here. Today, […]
As children move through school often their language difficulties can sometimes become more subtle. At first glance they seem to be able to respond to questions and can express themselves in longer sentences, but when things become more complex they can start to become confused. One of the things that can particularly trip up children […]
So, conjunctions… Technically a conjunction is an invariable grammatical particle, and it may or may not stand between the items it conjoins. (That takes me back to my linguistic lectures!!) You might call them conjunctions or connectives, but what we are talking about are those clever little words that link ideas and sentences together. Now […]
I do a lot of work with junior age children (age 7-11 for anyone not in the UK) with comprehension and expressive language problems. It’s always a challenge to find materials at the right level and targeting the right skills. I find that the way things look at this age is really important – the […]
I’ve recently rediscovered barrier games as a great way of developing language skills with children. I already knew about them, I just hadn’t used them so much for a while. First of all, let me explain exactly what I mean by a barrier game. These can be done individually or with a group of children. […]
