Let's play The Nouns Game™ with your child of any age today. This talking game is a good way to build your child's oral language or storehouse of vocabulary and knowledge. You can even talk this activity with an infant! And it's another free activity you can do with your child anywhere you are. Here’s how:
First off, let’s remind ourselves that a noun names a person, a place, or a thing. Nouns are words that name those tangible or real things you’ll help your child see and touch today. As you say a sentence such as “We'll take the dog with us,” just emphasize the word “dog” that names an animal, a thing. Specific nouns and sentences you model depends on your child's age and interests and on the activity the two or you are doing in the moment.
As you play The Nouns Game, you can model added vocabulary and knowledge by occasionally saying this sentence: "Nouns name some tangible or real things we can see and touch.”
Here are some sentences you might say with your infant or toddler today:
Wow! Imagine the hundreds of nouns you can model for your child today!
a PERSON,
or a PLACE,
or a THING.
So my name is a noun.
So is school.
So is ring.
And my city is a noun.
It's the PLACE where I live.
And a present is a noun.
It's a THING that I give.
Read and reread these next rhymes, then sing them to the "Twinkle, Twinkle tune:
Nouns are words I use to say
the names of people every day.
my mom
my aunt
my sister Jill
my dad
my friend
my Uncle Bill
Nouns are words I use to say
the names of people every day.
Nouns Name Places
Nouns are words I use to say
the names of places every day.
backyard
playground
classroom
hall
office
lunchroom
street
and wall
Nouns are words I use to say
the names of places every day.
Nouns Name Things
Nouns are words I use to say
the names of things I see each day.
bus
and car
and books
and clothes
spoon
and fork
and eyes
and nose
Nouns are words I use to say
the names of things I see each day.
Yes! And even high schoolers easily get pulled into such word games. The difference lies in the kinds of words the two of you throw out there. And in the challenge you present to one another to see just how long you can keep the game going.
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This was great to read!!! My 7 y.o. boy just started to enjoy diwnrag (the first step in making peace with a pencil), and his pictures are filled with laser beams and bursting things and shooting things and vehicles and outer space stuff. They look quite different from those of his two sisters. If your son would like a “wordless pen pal” (sending action pictures back and forth with no words required) e-mail me!
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