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Understands spoken words
(receptive language)
Activities and Strategies
for Development
Check This Out!
Play this naming game the next time you are waiting in the check out lane at the
grocery store.
Take two or three items at a time from your cart and place them in the top
basket of the cart where your child is sitting. For example, put apples, mangoes,
and bananas next to your child. Say, “Show me the bananas.” If your child points
to the bananas, say, “Good, that’s right. Those are the yellow bananas we peel
and eat.”
When you return home, ask your child to help you put away the bag of fruit. Say,
“Please hand me the apples…, the mangoes….the bananas.”
Doggie, Doggie Where’s Your Bone?
Use one of your child’s stuffed animals, preferably a dog and a pretend doggy
“bone” (plastic spoon) that you have hidden ahead of time.
Tell your child that the “doggie” has hidden his bone for the child to find.
Give your child the stuffed dog and ask him to look in the different places that
you name.
Say, “Is the bone under the table? Is the bone on top of the table? Is the bone
under the rug?”
See if your child can follow directions and look for the “bone” in these different
locations.
Finish the game by giving the clue that helps your child find the “bone.” Ask your
child where he found the bone.
As a variation, let your child hide the “bone” and as you look for it, say “Is the
bone under the table? No. Is the bone on top of the table?” until you find it!
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