Elementary School: How To Help Your Child Learn Verbal Linguistic Skills

How can I help my elementary school-age child learn verbal-linguistic skills?

One of the most fun things we can do as parents is to interact with our elementary school children verbally and linguistically. We can play word games, nursery rhymes and word songs with children. We can read to them from interesting parts of the newspaper. We can rephrase for them stories that we know or things that we're reading. We can also talk to them when we're watching television. We can ask, “Have you ever seen anything like that before?” “Do you know what that is?” “Why do you think that Timmy doesn't want to go with Grandpa to the store?” These types of interaction with children help to build their vocabulary. Of course we encourage them to ask us questions as well.