They think it's hilarious! And it gives me the opportunity to target a wider variety of goals: Why? Because it blasted language learning opportunities through the roof!Ĭhildren are naturally drawn to nonsensical things, like feeding donuts to elephants instead of hay, and giving a giraffe a pencil to use. I added mini erasers of all different sorts! There are donuts, french fries, trucks, apples, pencils and more! My words have power, too, and I want them to be used as a force for good. I want my words to be intentional, never careless. I want my words to be a reflection of the knowledge I have gained over the years in this wonderful field, effective and instructive. I want to view them as worthy of only receiving my best words, those that are spoken with kindness and patience. I want to shower my students with words of encouragement and acceptance. I teach my students to recognize the power of their words, and have watched how their lives have changed as they grow.īut after hearing that message, I began to think about how my own words may impact my students. I provide enticing, naturalistic contexts for new words to be learned, and then help children learn to shape those words into intelligible phrases and sentences to help them become effective communicators. I rejoice along with their parents when those precious words are spoken. I agonize over those first, hard-to-come-by words, meticulously planning and strategizing the best way to facilitate their emergence. Trace the words back to the beginning.īeing a speech-language pathologist, words have always been extremely important to me.
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Were my words full of grace, encouraging or life-giving? Or were they destructive, hurtful and careless, leading to disastrous consequences? He said something to the effect that if we trace back to the origins of conflict within relationships, healing or destruction comes from the words we say after the event that caused the conflict. The verse in its entirety states, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." But our pastor asked us to stop and consider just the first part, "In the beginning was the word, " to relate it to our own words.
This time, though, our pastor used John 1:1 to illustrate the power of our words. I've read these verses many times, and have listened to teachers speak about the importance of keeping our words in check on more than several occasions. A couple of weeks ago, our pastor taught on the third chapter of the book of James, which is all about taming the tongue. We are studying the book of James at our church.
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