We read DD lots of books, but she learns more word just day to dy by us saying what something is and getting ehr to repeat it, lots of books that have just a picture and the names of the "thing" like the my first words book. We started out with pointing at the iamge and say what the word was, then she would then be able to look at them and in time point at what was each one when we said the name, now we can point at the object and she say the same, we then relate that back to the actualy object she see's everday, like a real ball, door, window, house. We do a lot of finding the object in the picture books as well as reading the story, and the stories we chose we keep the text to a limited amount as she will get bored and want to turn the page. But she is lasting longer now and really enjoying sitting and listening to a whole story.
DD has a really big vocabulary, and seems to have really blossomed in the last few months
When DD went thru the stage of not letting us read a book properly we got the books Beema mentioned - and did a similar thing, point at the object and say what it was, mainly we asked her to find an object.
DD def had a word explosion when she got nearer to 2, but she's still not making heaps of sentences unlike others at MG, but she is more advanced in other areas, which I'm sure Lachlan is too. I heard/read somewhere that they work on one area at a time.
Just keep up the running commentary and don't stress!
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