Kind Reminders
Basic Instruction
If the child is 2 years old…
Increase linguistic input: Parents can repeatedly read aloud the corresponding vocabulary of the picture cards in hand deliberately.
If the child is 3-4 years old…
Increase linguistic input: Parents can create simple sentences according to the picture cards to help the child acquire the basic sentence structure (SVO), such as: you choose… / I like… / … is red.
If the child is 5-6 years old…
Encourage language production – Parents can ask children simple questions to encourage them to express themselves and help them connect linguistic knowledge to daily life experiences, for example:
*If the child gives no reply, apart from encouraging them to express themselves, parents can provide a bit support by adding more descriptions or listing some day-to-day examples, for example (soap): you drank that last night / mammy cooks it all the time.
Game recommendation
Sign and Guess
- Choose a certain quantity (can be divisible by number of participants) of matching card pairs (word cards and picture cards) and use a card pair in each turn.
- Participants take turns to try to sign the content of the card pair and other participants have to guess whether the sign is correct.
- Scan the card pair with AR mode of the mobile app and check the answer.
- The participant who make a right guess can own the card pair.
- If more than one participant guesses correctly, play paper-scissors-stone to decide who can own the card pair.
- The winner will be the one who owns the most pairs of cards.
If the child is 2 years old…
Encourage the children to observe the detail in the picture cards with additional descriptions, for example:
Duck: ducks have a long and flat beak and they make ‘quack’ sound!
If the child is 3-4 years old…
Children at this age know basic interrogative sentences. Parents can ask the children simple questions with “What”, “Where”.
If the child is 5-6 years old…
Children at this age love to ask about the meaning of newly acquired vocabularies. Their learning motivation are very high and parents should seize these golden learning opportunities, and make more detailed explanations of the content of the picture/word cards to kids:
Parents can make use of the explanations provided by Dictionary in mobile app, for example: fire fighter: fire fighters wear a helmet with a raised part in the middle and put off fire with fire hose.