When teachers map their own actions and/or thoughts aloud, they use this strategy for building oral language.
What is self-talk?
100
The ability to attend to the sound system of language apart from word meaning.
What is phonological awareness?
100
Using this is considered one of the best ways to teach letter names.
What is the child's name?
100
As teachers evaluate their classroom library, they should consider if it is a distinct area apart from noisy play, contains books that are in excellent condition and are easily accessible to children and they should notice the following.
Do children use it consistently and appropriately?
100
This develops over time and follows common stages.
What is early writing?
200
Questions that can be answered in several different ways and require more than a yes/no answer to encourage children to think and express themselves.
What are open-ended questions?
200
This term is used when we teach children sounds while connecting them to print.
What is phonics?
200
We refer to this as we ask children to search for letters in print around the classroom.
What is environmental print?
200
This is one of the most important teaching tools for developing literacy!
What is reading aloud in preschool?
200
This is an important place where children can create a variety of work: journal writing, creating signs and posters, notes to friends and making books.
What is the writing center?
300
Increased opportunities for children to talk with teachers on a one-to-one basis and additional opportunities for children to listen and respond to their peers happen here.
What are small groups or learning centers?
300
The most difficult level of a rhyming task.
What is generating or producing rhyme?
300
When teaching children about letters, we should be explicit about calling attention to this.
What is the shape and form of letters?
300
This is developed when we have rich conversations with children about stories, introduce and use new vocabulary and foster understanding.
What is comprehension instruction?
300
Writing routines like morning message, charts, graphs, class books, thank you notes, rhymes and chants give teachers an opportunity to do this for children.
What is modeling writing?
400
The following technique can be in developing language skills in young children:
Child - "The car goes fast."
Adult - "Yes, the race car is speeding around the track."
What is recasting (repeat and expand)?
400
The production of groups of words that begin with the same initial sound.
What is alliteration?
400
Many letter names contain this.
What is the letter sound?
400
These types of questions draw information from background knowledge, allow for predictions, compare and contrast, determine cause and effect, apply information and solve problems.
What are inferential (open) questions?
400
This provides children with an opportunity to understand the connections between oral language and the written word, observe concepts about print, and be interactive in the writing process.
What is morning message?
500
When teachers actively engage children in conversations that facilitate mutual exchange of ideas, opinions and feelings, it results in engagement of children in conversation and participation of all children present.
What is discourse climate?
500
We do this when we use assessment data, build on previous knowledge and work with two categories of obvious contrasts.
What is meeting individual needs when doing PA sorts?
500
Children understand that letters are distinct one from another, each have corresponding sounds and when combined in different sequences they form written words.
What is the alphabetic principle?
500
Children's comprehension improves, their answers become more sophisticated with added details, they make more judgements about story events and begin to help narrate the text when we do this.
What is a repeated reading?
500
When we do this, we integrate writing into children's play and give them meaningful and authentic reasons to write.
What is "writing around the room" (placing writing materials around the room in centers while we model and explain why they are there).