Section 7.7

USING WORDS TO COMPARE

MAIN ACTIVITY

        1. Ask your child to collect a soft toy, for example a teddy. Then ask them to collect a ‘bigger’ teddy. Repeat with a ‘smaller’ teddy.
        2. Point to the first teddy and say ‘This teddy is big’, point to the second teddy ‘This teddy is…’ If the child answers ‘bigger’, praise the child and repeat the sentence. If the child gives an incorrect answer ‘more big’, model the answer and get the child to repeat.
        3. This can be repeated with different toys regularly while you play with your child.

HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY MORE CHALLENGING?

        1. Use a wider vocabulary – ‘longer’, ‘shorter’, ‘taller’, ‘happier’.
        2. Compare your child’s actions and appearance to their siblings. For example, ‘Hassan is taller than you’, ‘Aisha’s hair is longer than yours’. Encourage your child to make up some sentences of their own.
        3. Collect more toys and compare them.

HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY EASIER?

        1. Have the words written out on cards and match to the correct toy.
        2. Just focus on one comparative at a time ‘big’/‘bigger’.
        3. Ask your child to point before and then model the word. Ask your child to repeat.