Practice having your child fill in the blank on open-ended sentences. This promotes verbal reasoning, expressive vocabulary, and sometimes even humor. See how your child could add a different word to complete the same sentence to change the meaning. Examples could include: “I love to eat _____”. “The baby alligator felt very _____”. “I told my sister to give me the _____.” “The boy opened the box and saw a _____.” This is an easy activity to do while you are driving in the car, while your child is taking a bath, or at bedtime. Anytime is a great time to work on language skills!