Ming from Agents of Speech teaches how to move kids from single words to full sentences. Start with subjects, verbs, and objects. Then pick one or two sentence structures, keep them consistent while changing the words. Play supports language development, so use sequential and imaginative play to practice.
How to teach your child to speak in sentences. If you're teaching sentence building, the first thing is actually to teach the building blocks each of the words before teaching them how to put those words together. Most important, building blocks, like the subject, the verb, the object, those kind of things. You have to make sure they know what it is because it's directly referring to something in real life. Second of all is to target specific sentences. What I mean by that is that sometimes when we teach sentence building or word combining, we jump back and forth. What you need to do is to stick to one or two structures and teach them that way. So when you're teaching a child a new phrase structure or sentence structure, the structure should be the same. All you need to do is to mix the words in between. The last point I want to talk about is to teach your child to play more sequential and more imaginative toys in general. Play skills, cognitive skills. They come hand in hand. They grow together. And the reason why is because children learn through play. They experiment things through play. They think in play. They're using language in play as a context.
