K3C168: The Importance Of Clear Communication With Children
K3C168 – The importance of clear communication with children and specific issues that may arise in bilingual and multilingual settings
K3C168 The importance of clear communication with children
Do Don’t
Show positive facial expressions Interrupt children
Expand children’s statements Change the subject
Make sure that we are on the same eye level Allow other children to interrupt
Be interested and ask questions Interrogate children
Look for opportunities for sustained conversations Make children feel rushed or hurried
Use age appropriate language Use phrases and words that they may not know
Use nice tone of voice Be sarcastic
Use positive body language Use negative body language
Use visual clues Use aggressive or bored tone of voice …show more content…
This will give the children the essential skills to take part in family life. Within the setting we provide opportunities for the children to development their communication and language skills by different activities:
• Group time show and tell.
• Group lead activities.
• Group reading story time. Encourage younger children to listen and spot letters they recognise or to perform jolly phonics actions (such as first letter of their name) or to retell the story.
• Individual reading, speaking about what or who they enjoyed in the book, expecting ending of the story.
• Home corner, encourage children to role play, share and socialise with peers.
• Singing and rhyming, recognition of song or rhyme repeated patterns and actions.
• Outside play.
• Use puppets to retell story or in a game.
• Cooking, ask them to name the ingredients, talk about the processes and ask them to predict the
K3C168 The importance of clear communication with children
Do Don’t
Show positive facial expressions Interrupt children
Expand children’s statements Change the subject
Make sure that we are on the same eye level Allow other children to interrupt
Be interested and ask questions Interrogate children
Look for opportunities for sustained conversations Make children feel rushed or hurried
Use age appropriate language Use phrases and words that they may not know
Use nice tone of voice Be sarcastic
Use positive body language Use negative body language
Use visual clues Use aggressive or bored tone of voice …show more content…
This will give the children the essential skills to take part in family life. Within the setting we provide opportunities for the children to development their communication and language skills by different activities:
• Group time show and tell.
• Group lead activities.
• Group reading story time. Encourage younger children to listen and spot letters they recognise or to perform jolly phonics actions (such as first letter of their name) or to retell the story.
• Individual reading, speaking about what or who they enjoyed in the book, expecting ending of the story.
• Home corner, encourage children to role play, share and socialise with peers.
• Singing and rhyming, recognition of song or rhyme repeated patterns and actions.
• Outside play.
• Use puppets to retell story or in a game.
• Cooking, ask them to name the ingredients, talk about the processes and ask them to predict the