Language is the time of day where we try to have as much fun as we can! We try our best to make each activity as hands on as we can. When the kids see the learning as play, they enjoy the lessons even more! Each child has individual goals and language structures he/she is working on. Through the language lesson and activity we prompt the children produce these structures. We begin by giving the children the structure and he/she imitates it. As we take turns completing the activity, the students produce more and more spontaneously and less through prompting. With the youngest children and those with the least amount of language, we begin them on spontaneously producing single words (nouns and verbs). We also prompt them to imitate 2 word combinations (noun-verb, verb-noun, adjective-noun). As the children get a base of nouns and verbs they begin to put them together in combinations (noun-verb-noun, noun-verb-prep. phrase-noun, adj-noun-verb, etc). During our language lessons we will take pictures with a digital camera. We then make a story book out of the pictures. Weekly we go back and look at the stories we made working on language structures and syntax. Robyn and I will take time to sit with each student when we have a few minutes before another activity and look at the book. We have written a sentence at the bottom of each picture and we will read the sentence according to the student’s language level. Other times we will have the student tell us the story by looking at the pictures.

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