This is a good chance for you to model and for your child to copy you, so make sure you highlight a variety of words.Īs your child gets older and begins to say longer sentences, you can then emphasize word and sentence boundaries to encourage correct sentence formulation and grammar development. You can do this by using actions and changing your tone of voice to make these new words stand out. The best way to do this is to play with your child and emphasize new words that are based on the current activity and their interests. The power of choices and gestures as learning tools EmphasisĮmphasize the most important words in your sentences. “big brown cow,” “the big brown cow,” “the big brown cow is eating”). When you want to start making your way up to sentences, you can continue to add words to what your child has already said (e.g. “cow”) and adding another word to it (e.g. You can expand your child’s language and demonstrate two-word combinations during a play or flash-card activity by taking the single word that they have said (e.g.
#2 WORD PHRASES FOR TODDLERS FULL#
You will be able to help your child combine words together and move up towards saying full sentences by using the following techniques as much as possible: Expansion They are memorized by your child as a single “chunk” of language that they can’t break up to combine with other words. IMPORTANT! Words like “thank you” and “night, night” don’t count as two-word combinations. If your child is able to do this, then they are ready to combine two words together verbally. A good example is your child getting your attention by saying “Mommy” or “Daddy” and then pointing to a toy that they can’t reach.
Children learn nouns first (names of people, places, and things), but in order for them to construct meaningful sentences they need to use:Īs they get older, they should also start using:īefore your child can verbally express two ideas, they need to be able to express two ideas by using a word and a “supplementary gesture.” This nonverbal communication adds additional information to the word that they have spoken. To combine words and start saying meaningful sentences, your child needs to have a vocabulary that allows them to do so. Based on this, your child must be able to do the following things in order to successfully combine two words together: Use a Variety of Words
As your child progresses, their word combinations should start to include verbs, which are very important for their grammar skills to develop.Īdditionally, having a vocabulary of words from different grammatical categories is needed for your child to sensibly combine words. Your child’s first word combinations are used to express two ideas using any two words (e.g.
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