Increase your child’s vocabulary through these ANIMALS AND THEIR YOUNG ONES FLASHCARDS from The Teaching Aunt.
Children acquire language naturally. Even without formal lessons, they learn words and its meaning.
Just take a look at a baby. Newborns have no built-in words in them, but given a couple of years, they turn into chatterboxes.
I’ve also experienced this with my non-English speaker students. I had a couple of preschool students in the past who couldn’t speak English. We relied on picture cards and gestures during the first few weeks. It was challenging because I had to address their academic goals and communication needs.
Despite the language barrier, my class and I (Yes, my students included) did our best to communicate with our new foreigner friends.
I did some extra English language classes with them during rest time. And I made it a point to teach the basic vocabulary when opportunities arose.
As for my students, well, play made it all possible. My students demonstrated the rules one or two times then they just played.
We did these things consistently. After a month, my foreigner students can already speak and understand simple English sentences.
Like magic!
Now that we’ve already established how easy it is for children to learn a language, it is important to capitalize on this fact.
How do we do that?
By introducing them to an array of words whenever possible.
A good example is when I teach my students about animals. Aside from animal names, I also include vocabulary about baby animals.
Discussing animals and their babies is not a main topic in my class, but I teach it in passing to add to my students’ vocabulary.
Storytelling is my favorite way of doing this. I capture my students’ attention with colorful pictures and lively storytelling.
I don’t drill the students about the words they’ve just learned. If they retain the information, I’m happy. If not, I still consider it a win.
The important thing is they were exposed to the words.
Another thing that I do is post animals and their young ones’ flashcards in the classroom. This is effective, especially for my visual learners. They get to see the pictures and read the sight words.
Animals and Their Young Ones Flashcards
The animals and babies included in this set are the following:
- dog and puppy
- cat and kitten
- cow and calf
- deer and fawn
- duck and duckling
- tiger and cub
- pig and piglet
- kangaroo and joey
- rabbit and bunny
- horse and foal
- chicken and chick
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