Publisher's Synopsis
Providing structured lessons for teaching vocabulary, concepts and sentence structures in a pragmatic context for 2-12 year olds, this text contains lessons that involve real conversational language in a variety of activities including crafts, role-playing, puppetry and more. The three sections: help develop early words, semantic relations and word combinations with young children; help teach preschoolers syntax, vocabulary and concepts needed for communication; and help older children make the transition from oral language to literacy.;There are 61 reproducible activities and games to emphasize interactive formats that encourage naturalistic conversation. Each lesson plan provides: language goal; developmental stage; list of readily available props and materials used; linguistic stimuli; script and procedure; corrective feedback; and variations for extending the activity to other forms and concepts.
