Center for Speech Development according to Federal State Educational Standards

The speech development center involves conducting classes individually and in subgroups of 2-3 students. It also becomes one of the centers of children’s independent activity; they are pleased and interested in studying visual materials and playing here.

The goal of creating a center for speech development is the optimal organization of a developmental environment for improving the speech abilities of students.

The tasks of the speech development center directly depend on the age and individual characteristics of the children.

Children's age	Tasks
1.5–3 years	Development of speech hearing. Development of speech activity through improvement of fine motor skills. Enrichment of the active vocabulary.	Formation of a culture of verbal communication in a children's team. Nurturing empathy: feelings of empathy, desire to support. Strengthening friendships within the group. Creating positive motivation for teamwork.
3–4 years	Development of speech breathing. Improving sound perception. Development of the ability to formulate a statement or question.
4–5 years	Development of articulatory motor skills. Improving the ability to answer questions reasonably. Development of dialogical speech.
5–6 years	Development of phonemic hearing (the ability to distinguish sounds and phonemes in words). Strengthening the skills of correct sound pronunciation. Activation of vocabulary, generalizing concepts and lexical and grammatical categories.
6–7 years	Development of monologue speech. Development of phonemic hearing. Preparing for literacy.

Design of the speech development center

The speech development center is equipped and staffed in accordance with the age of the pupils. Thus, every year it is transformed and enriched to make it interesting and productive for children to study here.

For younger preschoolers, the speech development corner may include a sensory area - a place for the development of fine motor skills. As an option, this is a table with educational games: pyramids, a sorter, books and toys with buttons, bags of seeds and pebbles.

This could be a rug on the wall with buzzers, rubber bands, a plastic mirror, buttons, felt pictures, ribbons, and Velcro. The sensory mat usually depicts the plot of a fairy tale familiar to children (“Turnip”, “Teremok”, “The Three Little Pigs”) or images of natural objects, animals: flowers, trees, butterflies, birds, bunnies, etc. Everyone knows that a child’s first he actually wants to touch the object that interests him, so a developmental rug is made from pieces of bright fabric, scraps of velvet, printed ribbon, and colorful braid.

For all age groups of preschoolers, objects and play sets for the development of speech breathing should be presented in the corner. For these purposes, waste material and simple toys are used: plastic tubes and cups, ping-pong balls, cotton balls, plumes and pinwheels, flags, balloons. The teacher includes breathing exercises in play activities.

In the speech corner of the senior and preparatory groups, a place is set up for board and printed games. The selection is made up of games with letters and words:

“Entertaining ABC”: for cards with letters (uppercase and printed), you need to select cards with images of objects for these letters. “ABC Lotto”: cards with beeches are filled with chips with animals whose names begin with these letters. “Kaleidoscope of Letters”: children learn to recognize the symbolic designations of letters on the playing field. “Make a word. Dominoes: cards are used to create an image and its name. “Who lives where”: cards with words, animals and their habitats.

To stimulate children's verbal creativity and play dramatization games, a small area with a screen, decorations, and dolls is set up in the corner. Unlike the theatrical activity corner, the space for performances in the speech corner is limited. For example, you can cover a cardboard box - it will be a fairy-tale forest for the figurines. Dialogue using hand puppets and bibabo can be acted out from behind a folding paper screen.

Requirements for the speech development corner according to the Federal State Educational Standard for Preschool Education

Optimal location: the corner is sufficiently lit, located in a quiet place next to the book, theater and sensory development corners.
Compliance with the age and individual needs of children. The presence of an animated character - a doll or toy. The character who owns the corner encourages children to engage in speech activity: he tells funny stories, invites them to play, and asks questions. With the help of an animated toy, motor exercises and articulatory gymnastics are demonstrated. Aesthetics. The corner is designed in the same style as the areas for artistic reading and theatrical activities. The place of study attracts not only with bright colors, but also with interesting objects: reproductions on the wall, figurines on the shelf. Didactic and gaming materials are located in a corner by topic, and students learn to maintain order. Safety. Pupils of the first and second junior groups independently practice the development of fine motor skills under the supervision of a teacher (due to the danger of small parts getting into the respiratory tract). It is not recommended to equip the speech corner with hanging shelves or cabinets with glass doors. Electrical appliances and power supplies must be out of the reach of children. Names of the speech development center

The name of the developmental activity corner in kindergarten should be short and understandable. Traditionally, the activity center is named after the actual focus of the activity. Since a mandatory attribute of a speech corner is an animated toy, the name of this fantasy character is often used in the name. Unusual and funny names arouse additional interest among students. You can arrange a competition for children and parents to come up with a name.

Classic names: “Speech Corner”, “Speech Coach”, “Speech Development Corner”, “Learning to Talk”, “Speech Development Lessons”.

Titles with the name of the owner of the corner: “Lessons of Aunt Owl”, “Hello, Dunno!”, “Visiting Luntik”, “Button Invites”, “Talker”, “Mushka the Talker”, “Bunny the Lopotushka”.

Funny names: “Let's Talk”, “Gazebo”, “Zvukarik”, “Govoryashka/Govorusha”, “Azbukvarik”, “ABVGDEyka”, “Govorilki”, “Logostrana”, “Let’s Sit and Talk”, “Rechetsvetik”.

Contents of the speech development center

A special place in the speech corner is given to the animated character. The kids talk with this toy or picture in a playful way, he “sends” them parcels with new games and letters with tasks.

For the children's activity center, environmentally friendly (plastic, wooden, upholstered) furniture is selected. Cabinets, chairs and tables should be comfortable and suitable for the height of children. Sample list of furniture for a speech corner:

Wardrobe/rack with shelves. Table or shelf for temporary exhibitions. Desk and chairs.

Equipment in the speech development corner:

Mirror. To perform articulation exercises, the child needs to monitor his facial expressions, learn to independently control and direct his actions. The mirror should be securely mounted on the wall and located at the work desk, firstly, it is convenient for the child during class, and secondly, this eliminates the risk that children will accidentally touch the mirror and it will fall.

Audio recorder, TV. One of the components of speech development in kindergarten is enriching the auditory experience of pupils. Children hear literate speech, correct pronunciation, and logically constructed statements—their culture of oral communication is formed. For this purpose, audio tales and recordings of artists reading poems are listened to in the speech corner. Watching short videos serves as material for building further conversation.

Magnetic board. As mentioned above, such a board can be used to post current information, display photographs and illustrations on the topic of the lesson. But more often it is used for students to perform exercises. For example, in the following tasks: “Arrange the pictures in the correct sequence to form the plot of a fairy tale. Try to retell it,” “Make words from the letters of the magnetic alphabet...”, “Distribute the pictures by topic, come up with a name for each of them.”

Composition of the material base of the speech development corner

Visual materials, manuals	Junior and middle preschoolers: posters, illustrations (“Vegetables and fruits”, “Dishes”, “Clothing”, “Professions”, “Animals and their babies”, “Special equipment”, “Letters”, etc.), cards depicting emotions , characters from fairy tales, etc. Senior preschoolers: diagrams and mnemonic tables for articulation and finger exercises, posters on the composition of words (“Vowels and consonants”, “Division into syllables”).
Materials for sensory development	Younger preschoolers: toys with various fillings, rustling/squeaker books, safety boards and rugs, sorters. Middle preschoolers: figured mosaic (wooden), puzzles made from large elements. For children 5–7 years old: magnetic mosaic, boards with lacing, construction set.
Items for breathing development	Younger preschoolers: whistles, pipes, tubes, horns, turntables. Middle preschoolers: tennis balls, cotton balls, boats. Senior preschoolers: airball, soap bubbles, balloons.
Didactic materials	Younger preschoolers: thematic albums with pictures, soft and wooden cubes with images of animals, fruits, vegetables. Middle preschoolers: collections of fairy tales, poems and stories with illustrations, cubes with letters and syllables, magnetic pictures and the alphabet, cards for didactic games (“Fold the picture”, “Make up the plot of a fairy tale from episodes”, “Distribute in pairs”, etc.) . Senior preschoolers: collections of tongue twisters and riddles, board and printed games (letter dominoes, lotto with words and pictures).
Materials for dramatization games	Younger preschoolers: animal masks, finger puppets, sets of toys based on fairy tales: “Kolobok”, “Teremok”, “Turnip”, etc. Middle preschoolers: hand and stick puppets, bibabo characters. Senior preschoolers: puppets, character hats (Little Red Riding Hood, Pinocchio's cap, princess crown, wizard's hat).

Work at the speech development center

Classes in the speech corner are built within the framework of the leading activity of preschoolers - play. That is why it is necessary for the teacher to have a toy assistant; inclusion in the play situation occurs as soon as the character greets the children. Children often have to be encouraged to engage in speech activity. The teacher arouses in the pupils interest in conversation, using topics close to the children (“Our toys”, “What do you like to do on a walk”, “What fairy tales did your parents read to you”, “What do you want to become”, etc.).

Games and exercises in the speech development center are aimed at developing abilities and correction. The corner is used during a frontal speech lesson (with the whole group). But more often, individual and subgroup classes are held here, since there is a tendency to reduce speech therapy groups and the teacher is required to carry out continuity with the work of a speech therapist.

Creation and work of a speech development corner in kindergarten: role, significance, goals and objectives

The child’s speech develops gradually. By the age of 1.5 years, the first simple sentences appear: “Give me a drink,” “Give me,” etc. By the age of three, the vocabulary is approximately 1,500 words, the child composes complex sentences, uses conjunctions, and comes up with new words. Thus, already in the younger groups of kindergarten, increased attention is paid to speech classes with children.

It is necessary to pay attention to speech development from an early age of the child.

The process of speech acquisition is a complex process that occurs in all types of children's activities. The Federal State Educational Standard (FSES) identifies a separate area - “Speech development” - and puts forward requirements for the work of a teacher in this area. In addition to developing and conducting standard and integrated speech classes, the teacher of a preschool educational institution is tasked with organizing the subject-spatial environment in the group. In order to develop and, if necessary, correct the speech skills of pupils of all ages, several corners are set up - book, speech therapy, theatrical and speech.

Speech development of pupils is carried out in standard classes

The speech corner involves conducting classes individually and in subgroups of 2-3 students. It also becomes one of the centers of children’s independent activity; they are pleased and interested in studying visual materials and playing here. The purpose of creating a corner for speech development is the optimal organization of a developmental environment for improving the speech abilities of pupils.

The materials and design of the speech corner are attractive to children and arouse interest.

The tasks of the speech corner directly depend on the age and individual characteristics of the children.

Table: tasks of the speech corner

Children's age	Tasks
1.5–3 years	Development of speech hearing. Development of speech activity through improvement of fine motor skills. Enrichment of the active vocabulary.	Formation of a culture of verbal communication in a children's team. Nurturing empathy: feelings of empathy, desire to support. Strengthening friendships within the group. Creating positive motivation for teamwork.
3–4 years	Development of speech breathing. Improving sound perception. Development of the ability to formulate a statement or question.
4–5 years	Development of articulatory motor skills. Improving the ability to answer questions reasonably. Development of dialogical speech.
5–6 years	Development of phonemic hearing (the ability to distinguish sounds and phonemes in words). Strengthening the skills of correct sound pronunciation. Activation of vocabulary, generalizing concepts and lexical and grammatical categories.
6–7 years	Development of monologue speech. Development of phonemic hearing. Preparing for literacy.

The purpose of speech exercises is to develop facial and articulatory skills