Language For Thinking

[green hippo]

Hi,

What is your understanding of the statement 'Use talk to connect ideas'. Could anyone give me examples of what they might hear a child say who is demonstrating that they can do this?

Thanks

Green Hippo x

[Guest]

Off the top of my (very tired!) head.....something like:

 

'that's too big so I need this one'

'my car is super fast so it can go faster than yours'

[emmajess]

So any of those connectives - so, but, then, because... but some of these connectives may be implied rather than actually spoken, eg: 'It's raining really hard... I'd better get the wet weather clothes'

[Guest]

Have you had a look at the Profile Handbook? There are some ideas on page 44 about using language to link ideas.

 

If you don't have a hard copy then this will take you to the 2008 version online:

 

Profile Handbook 2008

 

Hope that helps