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Building Language Skills - Word Games Build Early Language Skills

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Dad Plays Word Games with Child

Dad Plays Word Games with Child

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Building Language Skills - This game builds your child's memory, vocabulary, verbal skills develop general reasoning skills to understand characteristics and classifications of people, places, things, and ideas. It can be played by any number of children and adults.

First, the group decides on a theme. Once a theme has been chosen, each person takes turns thinking up related words beginning with letters of the alphabet, in order. For example, if the theme is school, each person must say words related to school. The letter A might be Algebra, a B word might be book. The game continues until Z is reached and can be played again with different themes. Make it more challenging by keeping the same theme and adding a rule of no-repeated words. This adds challenge for older students and encourages attention and memory skills. When someone is stumped on a letter, that player can pass or ask the group to come up with a word that fits.

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This game can also be played using receptive language with a few adaptations. More Teaching Games to Share With Your Child
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