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How to teach negatives
Negatives are a really important thing to understand and always a high priority for me to target if a child is struggling with them. If you don’t know that there’s a difference between “push” and...
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How to be a terrific TA!
One of the parts of my job that I really enjoy is working with a range of different people, in different settings and of different professions. I truly believe that multidisciplinary working is the way...
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Teaching emotion words
We all struggle to talk about how we feel. It’s complicated and often difficult to find the words that most clearly express what we want to say. This is even more difficult for children, and...
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Narrative Therapy – Where
This is the third post in our series on narrative therapy. If you haven’t read the others you might want to go and have a quick look first! Read the introduction here and ideas for teaching who here....
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Narrative therapy: When
This is the next in our series of posts about narrative therapy. You can see the introduction, Part 1 – Who/character and Part 2 – Where/setting by clicking on the links. Today we are talking about...
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It’s raining cats and dogs! – Ideas for teaching idioms.
Well, in typical British bank holiday form, it is indeed raining cats and dogs today! But I thought I would grab the bull by the horns, put pen to paper and write this post. These are just some of the...
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How to support a child with birthday parties
The last week has been a bit of a blur, as I was organising my daughter’s birthday party which was on Saturday! Maybe there are people out there who can manage to do this without it taking over your...
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Teaching adjectives
Adjectives are really important words in a sentence. For example, think about these three sentences: The man took a walk through the forest. The old man took a long walk through the dark forest. The...
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Working speech and language targets into daily routines: Meal times.
We have written about working your speech and language targets into normal, day to day activities before. You can read our tips for bath time, trips to the park and trips to the beach. So today, I am...
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Guest Post: How Can Outdoor Play Help Children Gain Vital Language Skills?
We were recently approached by Pentagon Play about hosting a guest post. We have written a number of posts about the importance of play and getting outside to help language development. Pentagon Play...
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