I don’t know how to expand my daughters vocab because we do the same thing everyday

Books! My son is a very chatty talker (not being smug, he’s not ahead at *anything* else!) and I think it’s the sheer volume of books we have on rotation - rhyming books, board books, really wordy ones or ones that hardly have any words - and it introduces him to way more words than we use in general conversation. In every book I ask him to point out a word ‘where’s the badger’ and when he’s confident I’ll ask ‘what’s that’ when pointing at the badger. He’s got a long list of animals, colours, shapes etc as a result.

We also eat dinner as a family at the table nearly every night - even when we’re not directly talking to him he’s watching conversation between people which I think helps him.

Take her new places talk about it have her go to Nursey , toddler classes etc. my boy also has very good speak and we ready many books a day (before / after nursery / at weekends and my day off) he constantly is bringing books

Thank you all, I have to admit I do get tired constantly reading 🙈 but will deffo buy some more because she’s deffo bored of what we have! Thank you!

You don’t even need to buy more if there’s a library near by? You can circulate different sets of books and if she shows a preference then consider adding it to your own bookshelf.

I know Julia Donaldson seems a bit basic but the reason she’s so popular is that she’s a genius. My son can now recite individual lines of her books because the rhyming and the flow is so excellent.

Michael Rosen, Julia Donaldson, Kaye Umansky, and Peter Bentley are authors who write brilliant rhyming picture books - rhyme helps children see patterns in words and get a sense of rhythm.

Books!!

And talk to her as you would an adult!! Explain what you are doing, show her things, go on a walk and point things out.

It’s just conversation - albeit it one sided most of the time! - you will be amazed at things she picks up.

Literally talk to her about everything and anything

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I totally agree with books! We’ve been reading the snail and the whale quite a lot and my girl put her baby on a chair the other day and said ‘sit straight, don’t talk’ cracked me right up 😂 she definitely comes out with a lot she’s learnt from books!