Thinking out loud

By Penny Tassoni, Nursery World, 19 December 2001

Language is an essential tool in our lives. Without language, we would find it hard to socialise, communicate our feelings and maintain relationships.

Using language aloud may be essential to young children in activities or at story time and they should not be hushed, says Penny Tassoni Language is an essential tool in our lives. Without language, we would find it hard to socialise, communicate our feelings and maintain relationships. Language also has another important purpose that we probably take for granted - we use it to process and categorise information in a great variety of ways. You may talk...

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