Questions to Promote Dialogue
Most people like to stick with what they know. They would much prefer to stay within their comfort zone. It may not be as obvious to detect, but this description of people also applies to their dialogue, and children also tend to follow this pattern.
If you were to follow a person around and record their speech, upon analyzing, you would probably find that they use only a surprising small number of words repeated in their conversations. Children are particularly susceptible to this trend because they have not had the conversational experiences with which adults have been exposed throughout their lives.
However, you can promote the use of more words and a longer dialogue by asking simple questions during everyday conversations with your child. Here is a short list to get you started. Once you start using some of these questions on a regular basis, you will likely come up with your own and find it is second nature to get your child talking.
- “Can you explain your creation?” or “Tell me about your creation.” (As applied to a drawing, painting, block structure, or anything else made by your child.)
- “Why did you do that?” (This could be applied to any good or bad behavior. We often ask this only when a child has done something they aren’t supposed to, but explaining a good behavior is just as important.)
- “What was your favorite part?” (vacation, movie, story, trip to a friend’s or relative’s, celebration, etc.)
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Written by BRWI Staff on April 5, 2010
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