The language of following instructions can be very confusing for young children. As Elizabeth explained in this post, when you give an instruction, very often a child does not actually need to understand all the words to follow it. In fact, sometimes they don’t really need to understand the words at all – they can […]
On Monday we took our 3 year old daughter to the theatre to watch Room on the Broom and other tales by Julia Donaldson. She loved it, and it was obvious that many of the others did too. If you live in the UK and have children, I don’t think Julia Donaldson will need any […]
A while ago I wrote about encouraging children who aren’t using language at all to start using words. You can read that post here. But what about helping them to move on to the next stage – moving on from single words to putting phrases and sentences together? When children have around 50 single words […]
