Be on the lookout for ways you can add to the conversation, and move it forward.  You can:

 

Use Comments:

• What your child is doing

• Looking at

• Interested in

• or playing with

 

Use Questions:

• Ask simple question,

• Start with one-answer questions and then progress to harder ones

• Always give your child a chance to respond

• Focus on open questions instead of closed ones

 

Use Descriptor words:

• How does it feel (textures)

• How does it smell or taste

• What size is it

• Who gave it to you

 

By using these tips more vocabulary can be learned and used therefore adding to the richness of your child’s language.