Developed in partnership with Education Services Australia

Going out with your child is a great opportunity to practise the vocabulary and skills needed for navigating and following directions. Here are just a few ideas:

• point out signs and help your child read them – eg roads, suburbs, shops, parks
• talk (a lot!) about left and right until your child has mastered them
  
  Let’s turn right into the car park.
  
  Is the supermarket on the left or the right?
• describe where things are
  
  The park is next to the school.
  
  The fruit shop is opposite the bakery.
• challenge your child to follow a set of directions through a playground or similar space.
  
  Climb over the monkey bars, crawl through the tunnel, run around the pole, and finish at the slide.

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