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Explain Ways Of Supporting The Development Of Children's Speech

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Ways of supporting the development of children’s speech. Language and communications is covered in the EYFS framework, to provide this support, the settings much create a language rich environment. One where children have lots of opportunities to interact with adults and with other children. A language rich environment also encourages interactive as there are many interesting things to talk about and places where interactive can take place without any interruptions.
Quality interaction time with adults – Quality interaction is time spent listening, responding and talking. There are several features which make interactions high quality. Interactions must be enjoyable to both the child and adult, they also should be relaxed and unrushed. …show more content…

Having fun and engaging objects outdoors can also encourage the children to talk, ‘go find the wellington boots’ for example.
Opportunities for sharing books and rhymes – Looking at books with adults seems to promote children’s languages. All settings should have a place where the children can look at books independently or share the book with an adult. The area needs to be warm, cosy and comfortable. The books need to be attractive and displayed so that the children can access them easily. As well as sharing books, language rich environments also provide opportunities for children to learn a use new rhymes and songs. Rhymes and songs are known to encourage children to vocalise.
Opportunities for role play – Most children enjoy role play. Role play encouragers children to talk and communicate as they dress up or pretend to be someone else. Creating varied role-playing opportunities is therefore a key way of creating a language rich environment. The settings should have a number of role playing activities on rotation both indoors and outdoors (kitchens, fancy dress, building equipment etc). This ensures the children have to use a wider vocabulary. The setting should also help the children understand certain role plays for example hospitals, some children may never have gone to hospital, so they would not know how to act in such a situation, with an adult there to help guide them this could be the perfect time to expand on their vocabulary.
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