Early Learning Domains
Skills and behaviors children use to engage in learning such as curiosity and creativity.
Approaches to Learning
A preschool showing curiosity in the classroom. Being willing to explore other areas.
Approaches to Learning
What is the recommended amount of time to read aloud to children each day?
15 Minutes
What is the definition of cognitive development?
How children think, see their world, and use what they have learned.
What are the 5 domains in the Oregon Early Learning Guidelines?
Approaches to learning, Social-emotional development, Language and communication, Literacy, and Mathematics
Abilities in listening and understanding. Receptive and expressive language skills
Language and Communication
Mathematics
What is an important reason to read aloud to children?
Expands vocabulary, Improves comprehension, strengthens imagination, Increases attention span, Creates a lifetime interest in reading
Milestones provide a ___________ for when we can expect certain skills and behaviors.
What is a teachable moment?
A way to turn interactions into teaching moments and build on natural events.
A child's understanding of shapes and patterns.
Mathematics
A child looking at the pictures of a book even before they are able to read the words.
Literacy
What are three types of reading discussed in the literacy slides from class?
Read aloud, Emergent reading, Pretend reading
What are the 4 areas of cognitive development?
Knowledge, Skills, Disposition, and brain development
What is an example of a way to create a teachable moment?
Asking open-ended questions during a nature walk
A child's ability to express, recognize and manage their emotions.
Social-emotional Learning
Nate is playing with the marbles and another preschooler comes and grabs them away. Nate expresses that he is sad that the other preschooler took his toy. What domain is this an example of?
Social-emotional Learning
What is letter knowledge?
The ability to identify letters of the alphabet
List Piaget's 4 stages of development.
Sensorimotor (birth to age 2)
Pre-operational (age 2 to age 7)
Concrete (age 7 to age 11)
Formal Operational (age 11 through adulthood)
True or False: Good job! is an example of the best way to use words of encouragement.
False. The examples below are better words of encouragement.
The skills that come before learning to read and write
Literacy
The preschool class read The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The preschoolers were able to sequence and recite back to the teacher what they had heard in the story.
Language and Communication
What is phonemic awareness?
Identifying and manipulating the individual sounds or phonemes in the spoken word.
What is disposition in cognitive development?
Ability to approach new learning tasks and situations in a particular way.
Ex. A child being willing to learn something new.
What is just as important as giving children words of encouragement when learning?
Using encouraging words when children are struggling or frustrated.