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This emphasizes the interaction between the teacher who reads and guides children's comprehension of book content.
What is Interactive Book Sharing?
Time given to a child to respond to the question or to take a turn in the conversation.
What is Wait Time?
A strategy that focuses on simplifying a learning stimulus or task and using language to facilitate comprehension and learning by a child.
What is Mediation?
Activity that involves children taking turns to describe orally, or comment on, an object they have brought to share with their class, etc.
Questions that focus on things or events that are not present in the immediate context.
What are There-and-then Questions?
A part of linguistic scaffolding that emphasizes or focuses on the key parts of the verbal interaction.
What is Repetition?
A strategy for classroom management and discipline.
What is Conflict Resolution?
A part of linguistic scaffolding that's used to "fill out" what a child says.
What is Expansion?
Asked when teachers want children to indicate their level of knowledge or awareness of a specific topic.
What are Recitational Questions?
Using a series of questions that build on each other and engage a child's thinking and oral responses.
What is Contingent Questioning?
Used when a teacher needs to understand more clearly the message or meaning of what a child said.
What are Clarifying Questions?
Questions that elicit information from a child that the teacher does not know but needs to know.
Contain exploratory and game-like activities that one or more children can use independently.
What are Concept Centers?
These may explains conflicts that arise due to children with different expectations for "ownership, space, humor, turn-taking".
What are Cultural Differences?
Acknowledging and accepting what children are communicating.
What is Active Listening?