More and more children are commencing their foundation year with inadequate oral language (talking) skills. However, talking and understanding talk are fundamental to learning!
- What can we as parents do to address this problem?
- How do talking skills impact on learning through the early years?
- How does oral language impact on written language?
Learning to talk starts with the first parental responses to baby gurgles and continues for the whole of our lives. We use talk to question and learn, to express our opinions and to form relationships. To succeed at school we need to develop:
- an ability to listen and respond
- a knowledge of a wide variety of words
- a knowledge of how words go together to form sentences
- an ability to understand and ask questions
- an ability to use different sorts of language eg stories, opinions, facts
Through the ages, children have developed language through a consistent exposure to language as well as through a consistent use of language. However, society is changing! Parents and children are leading busier lives. Technology enables our work to reach us even when we are bathing children! Children are using technology at younger and younger ages. These are some of the factors contributing to the decline of talking skills in our Prep year students.
This workshop - through hands on activities – helps you understand:
- how language develops,
- how society is impacting on this,
- what the impact is on learning in foundation year,
- what is the ongoing impact across all subject areas,
- what parents can do.
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