How+to+Increase+Child's+Vocabualry

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= Oral Language: Expanding Your Child's Vocabulary: =

==== **Expanding vocabulary** is a lifelong process that begins during a child's earliest months. Long before a child can speak in simple words, phrases, and sentences, the child is forming an extensive vocabulary of words he or she understands. This learning takes place every time you: ====

= Name things for your child = = = Every opportunity you have, talk to your child throughout your daily activites. While dressing him/her, feeding, reading, bathing, and identifying objects. One of my favorite times of the day is in the car in the mornings as I transport my children to school. I really pump the languge with them? Asking them to name landmarks in the city. "What's the name of this bridge?", "What's the name of the river?" "I wonder if the Hiawatha is in the water?" "What's the name of the building you see movies at?" " Cinema" Yes, clap out the word parts, Cin **x** e **x** ma. Let's look for the ** chocolate chip mint ** house. "What day is it?" "Let's sing the days of the week song."  =sing songs- sing songs with hand motions =
 * Itsy, Bitsy Spider
 * Wheels on the Bus
 * Open Shut Them
 * Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
 * If You’re Happy and You Know It
 * Ring Around the Rosies
 * Skinamarinky Dinky Dink

= Recite Nursery Rhymes =

Jack and Jill Hickory Dickory Dock Little Miss Muffet Hey Diddle Diddle Jack Be Nimble = Play Games =

I spy I am thinking of a letter that talks with /b/ (say sound) as in boy. What's the letter? Simon Says Mother May I? Red Light Green Light