Routines and Repetition:

Speech and Language development can happen anywhere. Any time and any place!

One of my favourite top tips includes the power of using daily routines to boost language skills. The Covid -19 lockdown restrictions highlighted the importance of this.

Children learn to make connections between what they hear, what they see and what they do. The more they repeat, the stronger these connections become! Routines provide so much language rich opportunities. Within these routines, we may select every day vocabulary for a child to learn. Let's take the word 'On' and using the daily routine examples below, you will see how many times in one day this word is repeated!

Getting dressed ( Coat on/ socks on/ hat on)

Bath time ( tap on)

Bed time. ( lights on!)

During these routines, leaving a pause for your child to anticipate the action, will help them learn the meaning of the word too. Therefore, we can leave pauses and gently encourage the expected vocabulary.

Bath time is full of language! Every through just splashing the water!