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Check out our favorite toys and games to facilitate language development! This post contains Amazon affiliate links.
This version of Guess Who facilitates using descriptive words, paying attention to details, and making decisions by a process of elimination. This set has updated, diverse characters as well as pets.
This farm puzzle is great to be able to model animal sounds and animal names It is also good for modeling requesting for more pieces, all done, and directions like "put it in" and "take it out"
This game encourages discussions about various scenarios and how a child might feel in each. It serves as an excellent tool to build social-emotional skills and develop coping strategies, empowering children to better navigate their emotions in everyday situations.
Great repetitive book to work on language development, the repetition of the endings allow children to predict what's going to be said and join in on the book.
Imaginative play is a great way to develop language as children reenact scenes or create their own stories.
Great cause and effect toy, allows for a lot of langugage modeling including "down", "on", "off", "more", "go", "stop" labeling of colors, sounds such as "uh oh", "yay", etc
Bubbles are a great choice as they allow for requesting, commenting, and are fun! Parents can model language, keeping the bubble wand next to your mouth which facilitates language development by having child watch parents mouth
A junior version of Guess Who is great for working on language development with its incorporation of colors, location, and features requiring the description of specific details.
Any I-Spy book is great for receptive language such as asking a child to find a certain object by naming attributes (color, size, shape, etc) or modeling prepositions (in, on , next to, between). It also can be used for expressive language such as having child work on using prepositions or attributes themselves to describe items and their locations
Enhance language development and cognitive skills in a fun, fast-paced way. The game promotes vocabulary building, visual recognition, and memory, while also encouraging turn-taking and social interaction, making it an excellent choice for early learners to boost both language and social skills.
Children can practice naming body parts, identifying colors, following directions, and using words to request pieces. It also creates opportunities to build vocabulary, describe features, and develop imaginative play skills.
Children can practice action words like “go,” “stop,” and “crash,” learn concepts like “up” and “down,” and build communication skills by requesting cars, taking turns, and predicting what happens next.
