How to Prepare Your Preschooler for Reading and Writing. Part One - Oral Narrative Skills
I am currently studying Allied Health Assistance (specialising in Speech Pathology)
Through my course, I have some links that were shared to me to assist with my education and I have come across a tip sheet created by Speech Pathologist, Lucia Smith on the Pelican Talk, Speech Therapy Resources sit, that may benefit all you parents out there that have Children heading to school in the coming years.
How to prepare your Preschooler for Reading and Writing.
Oral Narrative Skills
Oral Narrative Skills are important to nurture as this is the skill your children will use to tell stories which have a start middle and an end.
Here are Lucia's tips to nurture this:
Read stories to your child. Choose the books they love, and ask questions.
Ask what they think will come next, what will happen, who was in the story, where they think the story was, and best of all, relate it to your child life. As in "Dora went exploring in the jungle, didn't she?, do you remember that time we found a snail in the garden and all the pretty flowers when we were exploring. What else did we find??"
Use props. Tell a story with your child. From drawings, to Barbie Dolls, to cars. Use things that will hold your Child's attention. With Trinity, we will play Barbie dolls and she will use her Barbies to make a family, and represent the way we live. Even go on holidays, and she will even re-enact our trips away. Use story type words like "once upon a time" "one day" "Dora said". Story telling like this can even happen in the bath.
Get creative. Take pictures throughout a day and get your child to tell the story. An idea is take a photo as the wave goodbye going to Kindergarten, a photo in the car when leaving kindergarten, a photo in the bath, eating dinner etc. and your child can tell the story of the day. Even if you wanted to get creative, make a power-point presentation, or use movie-maker.
Re-telling a story. Read a short story to your child. Grab a teddy and they can re-tell the story to their teddy. Or even their animals.Or even another sibling. This is a good one as they will add their own style to the story and develop an imagination with "their version" and help with their memory skills.
Sequence picture. Use a whole heap of pictures (I have done this with Trinity although I used a book, put a blank piece of paper over the words and photocopied them. Trinity can tell the story from reading the books as she has read all hers a million times) and line them up, ask your child to tell the story. If they are hesitant, start them off as they will love to finish.
You can view Lucia's Tip Sheet at:
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