Talking the Talk: Promoting a Language-Rich Learning Environment
Language and communication are developed best in the context of relationships, meaningful, and reciprocal interactions about things that are important to the child. Helping children build vocabulary and develop language skills to express their needs, thoughts, and opinions is a key teaching task in early childhood classrooms. Several developmental tasks are tied to children’s ability to access and use language in the right ways at the right time. And, one of the most important predictors of children’s future success as readers is the size of their vocabulary. Promoting a language-rich classroom environment supports children’s natural linguistic development, provides them with rich opportunities for language learning and challenges them to use language in everyday interactions.
Through attending this in-person seminar, educators will walk away with:
- Learn more about how children learn and develop speech and language skills.
- Explore how to promote the optimal language learning environment within everyday interactions and the classroom.
- Walk away with evidence-based strategies that are used in therapeutic settings and are applicable to the classroom environment.
Facilitated by
Dalia Alzyod
Dalia Alzyod
Speech & Language Therapist
