Using Experience Books to Support Early Language Development
- 1. Supporting Speech and Language Development of Children Using: Experience Books
- 2. You can make reading pertinent and personal for your child by creating “experience books.” Experience books provide opportunities for developing new vocabulary, building your child’s confidence and developing an understanding that words and pictures together can communicate meaning. Reading Helps Language Develop.
- 3. Pictures are Powerful! Pictures have to power to hold your child's attention and to introduce new ideas. They can help your child gain a better understanding of what is said or what will happen in the future. Pictures can be used to describe feelings, demonstrate activities, define meaning and retell experiences.
- 4. What is more engaging that a book where they are the main character? Seeing pictures of themselves and people they know makes experience books much more engaging. Make your child the “star” of their own experience books and those books are very likley to become firm favourites. Let them Shine!
- 5. Enhance Your Experiences T E L L O T H E R S A B O U T I T The experience book provides your child with a visual prompt which will help them talk about things they have done throughout the week with different people that they see. M A K E A R E C O R D O F I T Collect objects, drawings, photographs and tickets from your experience. Let your child talk about their understanding and memory of your time together. You can fill in some of the gaps but allow them to lead! S H A R E I T There are lots of things you can do to stimulate your child’s imagination and that will also provide opportunities for language learning and development.
- 6. Experience books can be sturdy and simple and be made from construction paper, brown paper bags, file folders or be electronic. They may contain hand-drawn pictures, computer graphics. They might have photos cut and pasted from magazines, pictures from the internet or objects collected on your adventures! Making your book
- 8. “I went in Nana's garden with Jacob. We looked under a rock. We saw a wiggly worm!
- 9. This is Grandpa Today we played with pegs and bricks Grandpa read me a story called Dear Zoo
- 10. Shopping Curtosy of "John Tracy Clinic" https://www.jtc.org/eyes-on-experience-books-using-homemade-books/
- 11. I Like School Curtosy of "John Tracy Clinic" https://www.jtc.org/eyes-on-experience-books-using-homemade-books/
- 12. Trip to the Farm Curtosy of "Parenting Chaos" https://parentingchaos.com/how-to-make-an-experience-book/
- 13. When you give your child the chance to read or re-tell a favourite story, they are acquiring the pre-literacy skill of narration. Eventually, after a special day such as a visiting Nana, your child may tell that story –with a beginning, a middle and an ending. He is communicating his experiences! Enhancing Narration
- 14. Use experience books to build a personal library for your child. As you both enjoying reading these books over and over, your child will build memories, language and communication skills. As your child keeps his eyes on experience books you build the foundation for literacy, too. From Language to Literacy.
- 15. Nursery staff Grandparents Friends Spilling juice in their nappy A plaster that fell off Their favourite toy going in the washing machine. The experience book provides your child with a visual prompt to help them talk about things they have done throughout the week with different people that they see Your child is likely to remember and to want to talk about experiences that are related to them! You might find your book filled with stories about There are no rules! And remember, if it’s not fun - it’s not working! Choosing a Topic.
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