Longitudinal Study Level 3 Childcare Early Years Developmental Checklist Template

Developmental Checklist
Template
Name
Area of Development: Speech, Language, and Communication
Child identifier (e.g., ‘child A’’) Child C
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Aim: (what do you want to find out?)
Help support Child A.K with speech, language, and communication
skills. This will enable Child A.K to interact more confidently with their
peers and develop their social skills. I want to support Child A.K in
developing their vocabulary and being able to speak more coherently.
I want to find Child A.K’s specific interests and identify if Child A.K
has a schema or a particular learning style. This will enable me to
plan activities that will stimulate their
interest.
Early Years
Outcomes
Development
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Summative Assessment
What are the needs of
this child? (Relate to the
area of development you
have observed, child’s
developmental stage,
interest, and need,
holistic development.)
Child A.K can be supported to develop speech and
communication skills by adopting some strategies :
It is important to know about the activities and
things that hold child A.K interest and a child's
interest better helps them to grow and develop the
skills effectively. For example; if child A.K seems
to be interested in playing with balls and tends to
repeat the activity of throwing and trying of
catching them. The continuous practice and interest
encourage him to do that activity more passionately
which leads him to grow skills of concentrating and
catching that ball. This particular schema can
facilitate child A.K to develop learning skills.
On the other hand; Practicing clear speech with
child A.K help him to model good speech.
Take the child out of the home. Talk to him, seek
his focus on the things and try to know what things
promote child A.K to think more and act
independently. Whether is it outside or inside the
environment that he loves to prefer.
Prefer to buy posters or cut pictures of favorite
things of child's interest that might motivate him to
say something about it (Brodin and Renblad, 2020).
Talk with the child and evaluate his understanding
by asking questions in between as well as motivate
a child to ask questions. Conversations can help to
know guardians about how much and how
frequently the child is learning. What things Child
A.K is learning better and faster?
Help child A.K to learn new words.
Provide good nutritional food to A.K that supports
the developing mind.
Next steps for the child:
How can you support
accelerated learning?
The next step will be to analyze and evaluate the
changes in skills in child A.K. If speech and
communication skills seem to be developed then
carry on with the strategies and try to communicate
more with the child. And if given strategies are not
showing any development it is important to know
about the field of interest of child A.K and try to
interact effectively (Miller, 2021).
Some ideas which help to boost language and
speech development in the early years of
development are:
 Reading books: Reading with children is
an effective way to improve their skills. It is
important to get them involved while sitting
with them, show them different pictures,
encourage them to chat, and comment about

plots and pictures.
 Show and tell: Perform different fun
activities with children, show them different
pictures, and ask them to pick up a toy and
talk about it. Promote them to be
descriptive about why they chose that toy,
and why did they like that (Sunderajan and
Kanhere, 2019). If they ask any query about
anything always try to explain things
correctly without manipulating answers.
Such practices make them curious and they
will ask more questions which makes them
interactive.
 Sing song: A strong link lies between early
language learning and singing. This activity
may prove to be very effective with babies
and young age children. Singing songs with
children develop skills to recognize and
differentiate sounds and rhymes which
extend their sense of acknowledging
vocabulary.
 Describing and guessing games: Involve
children in games in which they will be
given an object and ask them to describe it.
Gaming activities make them mentally and
physically active (Nikonova and Pavlova,
2018).
 Role play and pretending games: Role
play includes the activity of including
children and getting them to dress up like
their favorite character and act in a play,
encouraging them to describe the character
they are playing, and what they like about
the character. Put children in an imaginary
situation and ask them to act like what they
consider their character would do in a given
situation. Role play helps them in making
plots and develops their cognitive skills as
well.
 Explore rhythms and rhymes: Learning to
identify rhymes is a significant part of
language development. Exploring rhymes
support to the development of phonological
awareness skills among children and help
them to learn reading skills. Repeating
rhymes and poems in front of them makes
them learn the poem completely and
encourages them to join while reciting
poems.