10/18/2025
🧠❓ Play 20 Questions — With a Language-Boosting Spin!
👓 Start with a Category:
Animals, foods, household items, people, places — naming a category helps organize thinking and build meaningful connections between words!
🗣️ Use Describing Language:
As your child asks questions or gives clues, encourage use of:
– Category (Is it a fruit?)
– Function (Do you eat it?)
– Parts (Does it have legs?)
– Location (Do you find it outside?)
– Size/Color/Texture (Is it soft? Is it red?)
– Opposites (Is it not alive?)
🧩 Model and Expand:
If your child struggles, model a question and talk through your reasoning. Focus on how they’re thinking and building their language—not just whether they guess correctly.
✍️ Add a Literacy Challenge:
Try a “silent mode” where questions and answers are written instead of spoken. This supports sentence formation, grammar, spelling, and clear communication!
💡 Bonus Tip:
Keep a “word detective journal” to jot down strong questions or new words — great for reflection and vocabulary growth. 🕵️♀️📓
🎯 Supports:
– Semantic mapping and deepening word meaning
– Flexible, organized thinking
– Listening and reading comprehension
– Expressive and written language skills
