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Language Stimulation Techniques Part II

Job and Family Services - Foster Family Training

The ABC’s of Positive Parenting for Foster Parents

II. Asking questions of your child (only when you intend to listen end incorporate what he says into action.)

1. Question – Answer Game
2. A simple question – answer game in  which the child and parent sit together
3. Ask a question in a complete sentence form, and wait for an answer in a complete sentence. Praise the child and reinforce with another question.
4. Framing of questions
5. Begin asking questions which require one word responses. Do you want an egg? Calls for a yes/no response.
6. Gradually increase the number of questions requiring more complex answers: Do you want eggs or cereal? Calls for a definite but only single word response.
7. Eventually incorporate content questions: What kind of cereal do you want? Calls for a descriptive answer.
8. Question sequences
9. Question – Answer – Question: Provide the structure, wait for the child to respond but do not force him/her – What this? Book. What do you want to do with the book?
10. Answer – Question: Similar to above – He crying. What he doing?
11. Question – Answer series: Leads to solution of several step operation – What this? Orange. What do we do with orange? Eat it . What we eat orange with? With mouth.
12. Statement – Question: Shows that statements are made up of functioning parts – The book is on the table. Where is the book? What is on the table? Is the book under the table?
13. Reading to your Child
14. Use large picture-story books interesting enough to talk about without the printed story.
15. Picture Discussion
16. Give a picture to your child for discussion. The picture could be snapshots the child finds at home, which would encourage the child to talk about the picture.
17. Do not read directly from the print but use large print stores at first, talking through the story line.
18. Paraphrase the story
19. Make up your own story
20. Talk about the pictures
21. Listening Games: Listening can be encouraged through games that induce the child to listen to instructions given. “Put your Finger in the Air” and “Simon Says” are examples of such games.
22. Whisper the Answer: To encourage participation form a child who does not either listen or speak well, sometimes a warning is helpful. Instead of calling on the child after the listening is over, tell her before that she will need to listen especially well because you have a question for her afterward. Let the child whisper the answer in your ear.
23. Read the story, pointing out “key” words and “matching” pictures. Say: the marshmallow necklace was eaten by Mrs. Pig. Find the necklace; find the word necklace.
24. Missing Words: As stories or poems are read or told, words or phrases can be left out, let the child guess what the missing words might be.
25. Read the books that repeat “words” frequently and place the words in the same location on each page (i.e. The Bus Ride: Mrs. Pig’s Luncheon)
26. Sequence of Events: After a story that has had a definite sequence of events, have the child recall the events in the order they occurred.
27. Make up a Story: Show your child a book without words and have her make up the story.
28. Tell a Story: Have your child start to tell a story you add on to it and the child continues. Take turns with your child until the story has gone on for 10 minutes.
29. Repeat favorite stories again and again.