[ Post a Response | Articulation, Language, and Fluency ]
Posted by Kristina710 on 2/16/2009, 10:35 am, in reply to "story telling"
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Are there other expressive language difficulties?
By the time they turn 5, the average child is:
- Using plurals and possessives
- Using most pronouns correctly (reflexive pronouns (himself, myself, etc) may still be used inconsistently)
- Using compound sentences with "and" or "or"
- Uses contractions (can't, won't, we'll, etc.)
- Uses the words could, would, hope, think, know, tell, guess
- Uses irregular past tense of verbs (ran, left)but may sometimes overgeneralize regular rules (runned)
- Generally speaks in grammatically correct and more complex sentences
He should be developing:
- Answering why questions with "because"
- Using regular comparative forms (biggest, longest)
In terms of your question, yes, he should be able to talk about his drawings in more detail. Have you tried different approaches? It sounds like you may needs to teach him what you want him to do.
For instance, if he drew himself, his bike and his dog, after he labels the nouns in the pictures, you can ask questions that will help him to add verbs, adjectives, etc.
You could say "What you are going to do with your bike?" or "Are you going to ride your bike?". Then you could guide him through talking about where he will ride it (in the driveway, to the park) when (tomorrow, this afternoon) and how (fast, carefully, with help, etc). Talk about what you think the dog will do (chase the bike, run around him, bark, etc).
After you have helped him provide more details, then you could put them into a narrative - "This is you and Fido about to ride to the park today. Your gonna ride fast the whole way and Fido will chase after you." You could write a first account for him on the back of the drawing "I am riding...".
You could also create your own drawing and model talking about what you drew and what will happen next.
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