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Let’s talk!
Creating opportunities for children to express themselves
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Creating opportunities for expression
Talk about…
Oneself
Things around and experience in school
Pictures
Stories
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Talk about oneself
Connect with the lives of children. Ask them about their :
• Thoughts/ideas• Needs, wishes, desires• Experiences• Emotions
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Talk about objects and experiences in school
Children could accurately observe : trees houses
flowers bee-hives butterfliesshops
street taps drains
…and various other things around them and talk about it
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Talk about pictures
Each group can be given a picture from :
• Newspapers • Magazines• Calendars• Stamps• Labels• Posters
Children can discuss the picture within the group and the spokesperson can describe it to the whole class. Pictures can be used for creative and analytical talk.
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Talk about pictures
With the help of pictures we can direct the child to do thefollowing things:
Finding - Eg. Who is sitting on the chair?
Reasoning – Eg. Why is the girl crying?
Projecting – Eg. What will the little girl say to the lady selling the vegetables? (projecting into an imaginary situation)
Predicting – Eg. What will the girl do when she reaches home?
Relating - Eg. Did you ever sit on a bicycle? What does it feel like?
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Listening to stories and talking about them
Give the children a chance to :
- Listen to the story
- Relate to the story
- Imagine characters and events
- Complete the story
- Recreate the story and its characters in a meaningful way
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Role play
Playing the roles of characters in a story develops:
- communication skills
- insight and imagination
- group decision making
- conflict resolution
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Tips for teachers
• Allow the child to say the whole thing
• Be interested in what he is trying to say
• Control your desire to contradict
• Respond by saying elaborately what the child has said, bringing in new vocabulary and a richer sentence structure
• Ask for more information
• Direct the child to a new aspect of the topic
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• Adapted from the handbook, “The child’s Language And The Teacher” by Krishna Kumar