Counting

Chanter

Sub Trajectory: verbal

Description

Chants number words in “sing-song” fashion and may run them together. The number words may be indistinguishable from one another.

May begin a nonverbal object "counting" such as copying an adult's item-by-item placement of objects (Stella et al., 2016).

Activities

You may see this:

Other Examples:

A child says: "onetwothreefour…." as one sound, rather than as distinct number words.
After watching an adult put one to six "food tokens" into an animal puppet, a child imitates the puppet-feeding with attention to number.

Help your student become a(n) Chanter

These activities provide initial experiences with verbal counting, helping children learn the sequence by including rhymes and songs and other rhythmic and playful games.