How to Support Your Child

Good communication is two-way and requires good listening skills. To help your child, you will need to demonstrate good listening skills yourself. Make sure that you have time for this in your day. You may need to explain words that your child still does not know.

Your child's vocabulary will be growing. Help them to understand new words they learn. And make sure they are not afraid to ask if they don't understand a word. If you don't know the exact meaning of a word - look it up in a dictionary.

There are lots of online dictionaries, like http://dictionary.com/ that you can use.

Just by having good conversations with your children you are supporting their language. So talk to them. Ask them how they day at school was, and how their friends are. Hopefully they don't need too much encouragement to talk. Try to encourage conversations rather than just talking.