Developmental Tasks.pdf - Primarily Learning

Language
Development
Listening
Development
Visual
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Fine Motor/
Eye Hand
Developmental Reading Tasks Toddler to 3 +
NOTE:
Remember to provide numerous and varied learning opportunities through
games, music and activities for young children. Some of the activities listed may
be presented when the child is a toddler. Children develop at varying rates.
Some children will quickly grasp and enjoy the activity while other will need
repeated and varied learning opportunities.
* All of the activities listed below are presented and many are assessed during
senior kindergarten.
Determine which of three things is not like the other. Tell why.
(Visual discrimination.)
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Determine which two of three symbols are the same. Tell why. * *
I spy something big, red and round. * * *
Put 3-5 things on a tray. Ask the child to try to remember the items. Look
at the tray. Cover it. List items that the child remembered. Check the list
with the items on the tray. Increase to 7 items. (Visual memory)
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Without identifying sounds, match 2 of three symbols that are the same.
(i.e. h h n; p d p; ai ae ae)
Identify environmental sounds. (Auditory discrimination) * *
Make the sounds of a specific animal. * *
Match two sound shakers. *
Delete part of a compound word. “Say doghouse. Now say it again but
don‟t say dog.” (Auditory memory)
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Clap the syllables of a word. ( i.e. dog; ti-ger; hick-or-y; hel-i-cop-ter) * *
Bounce a ball or tap stick to the syllable beats of a rhyme or song. * *
Delete part of a two syllable word. “Say window. Now say it again but * *
don‟t say -dow.”
Delete part of a three syllable word. “Say wonderful. Now say it again
but don‟t say won-.”
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Make up silly rhymes. (i.e. willy, nilly: rog, bog, mog) * *
Fill in the missing word in a Nursery Rhyme. (i.e. “Jack and Jill went up * *
the ______”)
Copy clapping patterns. *
Remember a 7 digit phone number. *
Determine which of three words rhyme. * *
Identify if two words rhyme. * *
Make a rhyme. * *
Develop fine motor control by using scissors, crayons, chalk, pencils,
Lego, blocks, paint, sand, plasticene, and play dough; pinching tweezers;
squeezing sponges, balls or bean bags; lacing and stringing beads;
tracing; etc.
Encourage efforts to draw real people, objects and events. Talk about
and model drawing these items using shapes and position in space.
Avoid baby talk as you TALK to the child. * *
READ STORIES. Have fun! Use expression. Ask questions. Dramatize! * *
LOOK AT BOOKS. Talk about the picture, words, story. * *
Go to the LIBRARY! *
SING SONGS. Singing songs develops auditory memory skills and
provides opportunities to play with words and rhymes!
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Sing the Jolly Songs to introduce the sounds of our language to children. * *
Enjoy age appropriate movies. Talk about them. Sequence events. * *
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Give the child a hand mirror. Encourage the child to watch his/her
mouth as he/she makes a sound or says a word.
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Compiled by L. Fyke 2006 3