Language Development resources

To develop increasingly complex language, children need to demonstrate proficiency in a variety of tenses to communicate their wants, needs, comments, and conversation. This activity uses summer themes and words to target the use of regular and irregular verbs in past, present, and future tenses. It is designed for non-literate and literate learners.

These activities can be used to expand a child’s expressive and receptive vocabulary, while working on other language skills such as following directions and answering questions.

Use these activities to target a variety of goals including sentence expansion, grammar, vocabulary, and following directions.

These activities can be used with children of all ages to target language skills such as following directions, expanding vocabulary, and grammatical structures.

Use this spring scene with your students to practice following 1 step directions that contain spatial concepts.

Sentence strips provide a visual way to build sentences, providing a concrete learning strategy for young children working on expanding their utterance length.

This handout addresses vocabulary, sentence building, utterance length, and social interaction. Have fun searching for Saint Patrick’s Day themed images while sharing the history of this celebrated holiday!