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Languages
Verbal
Function
Children use verbal language to
- Listen
- Speak
- Role play and drama/acting
- Write
- Read
- Express: Role Play, Drama, Story Telling, Authoring
Structure
language to
- Articulate sounds and words
- Form sentences
- Identify and form letters
- Tell stories
Learning Experiences Children are given opportunities to
Represent and Express by:
- Describing objects and events
- Imitating
- Telling/retelling stories
- Giving information
- Performing stories
- Pretending to be someone/thing else
- Using invented spelling
- Reading signs, symbols, own words, others words
- Re-represent and/or interpret
- Critiquing
Create and Solve Problems by:
- Connecting to prior experiences
- Observing: looks, listens
- Investigating objects and actions. What happens if???
- Identifying and describing parts/steps, connections
- Predicting
- Using different/multiple approaches
- Critiquing
Connect Community, Family, and Culture by:
- Including bilingual children's home language
- Providing stories that reflect a diversity of cultures
- Including author and illustrator studies
- Participating in Garden Day, Night of Light and other family events
- Providing play props that reflect diversity
- Using Literacy Home- School Connection Bags
Build Relationships and Understanding of Self by:
- Nurturing confident self-concept and group identity
- Distinguishing me from others
- Doing things for self
- Forming attachment to a primary caregiver
- Expressing emotions
- Showing care and empathy toward the feelings and needs of others, including those from diverse backgrounds
- Having time to play and work alone and in groups: share materials, contribute ideas, etc
- Solving social conflict situations including responding to bias
- Making choices and accepting consequences
Children use a variety of tools and materials that are adapted as needed:
- Writing instruments
- Books
- Journals
- Puppets
- Flannel boards
- Drama props
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