- 1). Adjust the way you talk to the student. Use grammatically simple sentences and simple, everyday vocabulary. Repeat back what the student has said. Talk about what's happening in the here and now, and exaggerate important words, for example, the missing pieces of grammar. Use gestures to help understanding and slow down when necessary to help the student's speech processing.
- 2). Adjust your classroom layout. Make maximum use of visual aids such as pictures, whiteboards and items that demonstrate what you are talking about. Seat the child closer to the front of the class, in a position where he can clearly see what is happening. Whenever possible, get down to the child's level. Be face to face when you are talking to him.
- 3). Use role play and small world play activities where you have fun taking turns talking and playing. Talk about the things you and the student are doing as you are doing them.
- 4). Include songs, rhymes and music in your lessons. Rhymes and songs can be an excellent way of modeling sentences with verbs. The rhythm of rhymes helps memory for longer sentences. Include lots of action verbs in your songs. Some good examples are "Simon says," "The wheels on the bus" and "If you're happy and you know it."
- 5). Share books with the students. Book sharing is another good opportunity for picture description in which sentences can be prompted and modelled. For example, "Look, a train and a bus" (and); "The boy is waving" (is and ing); "Look, two boats" (plurals).
Books can also be used to help develop an organized description of what has happened. Re-telling a story to you will give the child an opportunity to put sentences together into a much longer, organized description. - 6). Play table-top games. Use games like lotto and memory pairs for modelling sentences, for example, "The cat is in the basket." When turning over pairs, encourage each child to say "a..... and a......." to help build understanding of vocabulary items.
- 7). Give the student lots of opportunities to follow simple instructions such as "Take the cup and put it in the sink." Do this many times during the day during normal daily routines such as preparing for recess, tidying up after art, changing clothes for swimming or physical education lessons.
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