LISTENING 

• Listen to sounds in the environment – what can you hear?
• Who or what is making the sound/s?
• Can you see it?  
• Can you make that sound
• Listen and follow a set of simple step by step of instructions

LISTENING, REPEATING AND FOLLOWING AN INSTRUCTION USING EYE CONTACT

• Listen to the instruction
• Repeat the instruction 
• Implement the instruction

SPEECH 

Oral language is a way of communicating with the people in my world. Speaking with your child in a focused and meaningful way, enables your child to develop oral language that is meaningful and grammatically correct with clear articulation. 

To assist your child with their oral language development -

• talk about your family and its structure, the places that you go, the things that you see, the books you read, the things you do etc so that they are hearing and using oral language.
• ask questions
• describe things
• give instructions / directions

READING

• Listening to your child read every night
• Read to your child regularly
• Asking your child to retell the story in his/ her own words.
• Describe the characters.
• Discuss the problems and solutions in the story.
• Ask questions about the story.
• Look for incidental reading opportunities for your child to engage in eg reading product names, numbers etc  when shopping
• At challenging words prompt “What would make sense and look right?” or if an error has been made “Try that again.”

WRITING

When I write I need to-

• Think about the sentence I am going to write.
• Use my sentence hands and say the sentence aloud. 
• Repeat this, saying my sentence 3 or 4 times aloud. 
• Write my sentence.
• Segment / sound-talk the words I don’t know.
• Listen to the sounds I hear and write them.
• Point and reread my sentence to check that it makes sense.
• Check that my sentence has a capital letter at the start and a full stop at the end.