Communication through Daily Routines: Time to Eat
Does your child' enjoy mealtime?? Did you know that you can still target your child’s language and communication development when it’s time to eat!
Daily routines provide some of the best opportunities to teach our children language! Check out the list below of words, phrases, and short sentences that you can use when it’s time to eat. Although some of these words may be more difficulty for your child to pronounce, they will be able to demonstrate understanding by identifying/fining/pointing to the names object and they may begin to attempt to imitate through sounds or word approximations!
Object Words: spoon, fork, cup, plate, dish, bowl, fridge, bottle, juice, milk, water, food names (cracker, cheese, etc.), towel, napkin, chair, tray, straw, microwave, oven
Action Words: sit down, pour, stir, clean up, eat, drink, bite, cut, wash, blow, cook, chew
Concept Words: mine, yours, in, more, hot, cold, big, all gone, all done
Sounds & Phrases:
Time to eat.
Wash hands.
Juice please.
Hot. Blow on it.
More please.
In the sink.
Sit down. My chair.
Pout it. Pshhhhh.
Uh-Oh – a mess!
Stir it up.
Want more milk?
All done.
My spoon. My cup.
Juice in.
Wipe it up.
Want more?
Put away.
Wipe my hands.
Yummy ______.
Chew ______.
Some information taken from Daily Routines from Super Duper Publications: Early Language Development by Linda Mawhinney & Mary Scott McTeague.
