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I can create many
language experiences with children.
I can develop themes
and topics that provide opportunities for interesting
and substantive conversations with young children.
I can teach early
literacy skills to children learning English
as a second language.
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Decontextualized
speech is talking about events beyond the here
and now, in the past, future or imagination.
Experience with
many words, and a wide variety of types of
words, prepares a child for success with
conventional reading.
Curricula built
around content areas – social sciences, science,
arts – promote many opportunities for children
to hear and use new words.
Conversation around
story reading is a strategy for expanding
children’s vocabulary (dialogic reading).
Relationships,
resources and routines provide many opportunities
for infants and toddlers to hear and use
language.
There are specific
strategies for teaching oral language skills
to children learning English as a second
language.
There
is a continuum of second language acquisition. |
Can
give two examples of topics that might generate
meaningful and substantive conversations with
young children.
Can describe how
to use books to expand children’s vocabulary
(dialogic reading).
Can
describe one strategy for teaching oral language
skills to children learning English as a
second language. |
