Activities that
involve music, singing and rhyming are natural and enriching for all children,
and especially for children with cochlear implants/hearing aids who are listening and
using spoken language. Incorporate music
throughout your day. Sing songs and act out finger plays.
Click HERE for printable HUMPTY DUMPTY story props, a minibook and rhyming words.
Acting out HUMPTY DUMPTY with a hard-boiled
egg is a fun and learning to listen activity.
There is a whole lesson in
making a Humpty Dumpty egg.
A few Spoken Language Targets:
For toddlers,
focus on "more", "uh-oh", "sit down",
"fall down" "broken" talk about the horses and more.
For
preschoolers, some concepts to introduce while reading Humpty Dumpty are those,
which require fine auditory discrimination involving syntax such as sat/sit, fall/fell,
horse/horses/ man/men.
You may also choose to talk about positional words (e.g.
above, below, after, before, over, under, on, off).
Expand your child's vocabulary for broken with synonyms such as - break,
separate, split up, fall apart, come apart.
Critical thinking
and conversations can emerge while discussing how to repair HUMPTY DUMPTY.
Talk about HUMPTY DUMPTY'S changing emotions throughout the rhyme - happy, frightened,
sad, hurt, disappointed.
Check out this free
App: Rhymes for Tots by Emantras
that also includes putting broken toys together
again!
HERE is a easy an experiential listening and
language craft that involves making
HUMPTY DUMPTY out of a yogurt container.
My friend and colleague Dave Sindrey has offered a
printable Humpty Dumpty Game that
your children/students will love. Grab it HERE!
Dave Sindrey is a SLP and a Cert. Auditory-Verbal Therapist.
Dave’s site is http://www.speechtree.ca/. He is the creator of the Listening Room, which
provides hundreds of free activities for parents and professionals working with children who
have hearing loss.
http://www.hearingjourney.com/Listening_Room/index.cfm?langid=1
My friend and colleague Dave Sindrey has offered a
printable Humpty Dumpty Game that
your children/students will love. Grab it HERE!
Dave Sindrey is a SLP and a Cert. Auditory-Verbal Therapist.
Dave’s site is http://www.speechtree.ca/. He is the creator of the Listening Room, which
provides hundreds of free activities for parents and professionals working with children who
have hearing loss.
http://www.hearingjourney.com/Listening_Room/index.cfm?langid=1
Have fun listening and talking. We sure did!