PRESCHOOL
STORIES
Stories
About Talking
Produced by the Riverina Schools Project Partnership, 2008
•Stories help us feel like we belong.
•We can share our experiences by telling
stories. When we share, others can learn from
us.
•Stories help us understand about different
feelings like happiness, sadness, humour, grief.
•Stories help us grow. We learn to listen,
think, take turns and new ways to solve
problems.
Keira takes her youngest son to
playgroup. Her eldest son used to
come too.
Keira remembers when he was
four, she was worried he didn’t
speak clearly. He left the sounds
off the start of words. He said
things like ‘ellow’ for ‘yellow.’
Keira spoke to the playgroup
teachers. They suggested taking
her son to the speech pathologist
at the Community Health Centre.
The speech pathologist gave her
games to help her son say his
sounds. These games really helped.
Now her son is at school but he is
having trouble learning to read.
Keira is going to talk to the speech
pathologist again for more ideas to
help her son.
IS MY CHILD LEARNING PROPERLY?
What a Mum said:
“My daughter was using lots of
gestures but not many words. I
thought she wasn’t learning to
use language well.
The speech pathologist tested
my daughter and found there
were no problems.
She gave me a checklist so I
could see how well all my children
were learning to talk.”
A checklist…..
1 yearSpeaks one or more words
Reacts to ‘no’
2 years-
Uses 200-300 words
Uses short incomplete sentences
3 years-
Uses 900-1000 words
Uses 3-4 word sentences
4 years-
Uses 1500 words
Asks many questions
Tells stories about the past
Three generations of Mara’s family
come to playgroup. It’s great to see
this family playing and chatting
together.
Mara’s Mum and Nan feel Mara, who
is 1, is learning really well. She
walked when she was 9 months old.
Now she is trying to run and loves
to dance and climb. Mara said her
first words when she was 8 months
old. Now Mara can say the names of
her family and her favourite toys.
Sometimes
only
her
family
understand her words. Coming to
playgroup helps Mara learn so many
things and she loves to play with
the other kids.
It is really important to talk to your
child!
They adore love and affection and
playing games.
Children love it when you read or tell
stories to them. Sing them songs and
nursery rhymes.
Talk to your child about everyday
things you do…..they understand more
than you think!
If you’re child says something new let
them
know
how
clever
they
are……children love to feel special!
Grammar Milestones………
1-2 years
•Sentence length 1-2 words
•Using words like ball, car, no, gone, more, run,
eat, there
2-3 years
•Sentence length 2-3 words
•Using words like in, on, under, I, you, it, me
•Putting ‘s’ on the end of wordsPutting ‘ing’ on
the end of words
3-4 years
•Sentence length 3 or more words
•Using words like a, the, is, we, he, she
•Putting ‘ed’ on the end of words
0 – 3 years
t, d, n, h, y, m,
w, b, p, g, k
3 ½ – 4 ½ years
s, z, l, f, sh,
ch, j
5 – 8 ½ years
r, v, th,
Blends tr, pl, sl