School readiness: The sounds your child should be able to say

Hello and WELCOME to our school readiness program where one of our resident leading experts, Sonja Walker, talks us through everything we need to know about our children starting school.

In order for your child to be able to start learning to read when they go to school next year, they need to be able to speak well. In this video, I explain the sounds that your child should be able to say and provide you with a free downloadable fact sheet that provides lots of ideas for building your child’s spoken language skills.

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12 Comments

- - mom101628 said
  - 23 Oct 2015
    8:35 pm
Great tips and the feedback of funny ways to help are very good also. Thanks

- - 4littlemunchkins said
  - 23 Oct 2015
    6:09 pm
My daughter can talk very well, our issue is getting her to talk when she is uncomfortable. She has a bit of selective mutism.

- - mom94125 said
  - 23 Oct 2015
    5:13 pm
you seem like a really lovely person Sonya, i wish my kids would have you for a teacher! i think this video was great.
- Sonja Walker replied
  
  27 Oct 2015 , 5:49 am
  What a lovely thing to say! Thank you so much for your positive feedback. I really appreciate it!
- - mom103920 said
  - 20 Oct 2015
    10:24 am
Thanks for your guide Sonja. We play a lot of pretend games to encourage new speech patterns. It could be pretending to be a tiger ” Grrr, grr, Growl”, fixing a cardboard box car with a motor not starting “R R Rrrr RR rr “, endless combinations.
- Sonja Walker replied
  
  20 Oct 2015 , 8:49 pm
  What a great idea! I’m sure your children are having fun and learning their sounds at the same time!
- - mum4107 said
  - 20 Oct 2015
    6:51 am
Thank you so much. This informationis wonderful
- Sonja Walker replied
  
  20 Oct 2015 , 8:51 pm
  I’m so glad you’re finding my tips useful! Thank you so much for your feedback!
- - mum4107 said
  - 20 Oct 2015
    5:41 am
Thank you so much. These are fantastic
- Sonja Walker replied
  
  20 Oct 2015 , 8:52 pm
  I really appreciate your positive feedback. Thank you!
- - mom113055 said
  - 19 Oct 2015
    11:34 am
the sounds

- - mom74640 said
  - 19 Oct 2015
    11:01 am
Lke yw