“Tips for Car Trips”
School holidays are now in full swing! We are now over the ‘hump’ of the festive season and it’s a great time to enjoy this amazing weather and explore Victoria!
Many of you will be taking drives over the next couple of weeks whether it be down to the beach, to visit family or friends, car trips are a great time to get in some of that ‘pesky’ practice that your Speechie keeps reminding you that you have to do!
Here are some of my favourite ideas for developing language skills in the car!
1. ‘I Spy’, A classic car game in my opinion, but I like to adapt the rules to make it more family friendly! Try changing it to a description game instead of a first sound game. You need to tell the listener 3 things about the item that you are describing, for example: ‘It’s red, has two wheels and a person wears a helmet while riding it’.
2. Sound practice: laminate and stick cards for different sounds on the back of the seats/ passenger windows, take turns as a family at making up a sentence or saying a word
3. Rapid naming: practice naming things in groups as a family and see how many you can name in a group, you can all have a turn at doing this one.
4. Make up silly stories to practice narrative skills, try doing a different ‘part’ of the story each e.g. one person makes up the ‘beginning’ the next person follows on with the ‘middle’ and the last person does the ‘conclusion’
5. Take photos while on your outing and then get your child to describe what you did or recount your day, they can then do this to a family member of friend when they get home.
6. Practice thinking of questions, what might happen when you get to certain places to prepare your child for the outing in question.
Got any great ideas? Feel free to comment below…..
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