Essential Learnings for Talking B 

Attitudes	Knowledge	Behavior
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.	Decontextualized speech is talking about events beyond the here and now, in the past, future or imagination. Language develops in predictable ways as a result of many cumulative experiences. 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.	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).

  

Vocabulary Word	Decontextualized speech
Myth	Children can only talk about the here and now.
Using Books with Children	Using books with children to build vocabulary
Predictor	N/A

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Website Activities:

Video Focus - Curriculum supports language

Discussion Question - Share How You Implemented This Week's "Ideas To Do Tomorrow":

• Engage a child in a conversation about something that is not in front of them, requiring decontextualized speech.
• Read a familiar book to a small group and encourage conversation with the children around the book.
  

Action Plan - Intentionally use de-contextualized speech as a strategy for promoting
expressive language with children in your care.