This type of child seldomly responds or intiates, demonstrating little interest in the objects or people around him.
What is The Passive Child?
100
This child can use long, complex sentences and can hold conversations.
What is The Later Sentence User?
100
A strategy that includes paying close attention to a child to see exactly what she's interested in, giving the child time to initiate and paying close attention to what the child is saying.
What is Observe, Wait and Listen?
100
Setting up an appropriate grouping, stepping in and making suggestions and fading out when the interaction gets going.
What is Set Up, Step In and Fade Out?
100
Four ways you can extend the topic.
What are (name four) Explain, Talk About Feelings, Talk About the Future, Inform, Pretend, Project?
200
This type of child initiates interactions constantly and is very responsive to others' initiations.
What is The Sociable Child?
200
Doing these two things during an interaction with a child encourages him to take turns in a conversation.
What are Commenting and Questioning?
200
Following a child's lead by doing exactly what she does and says.
What is Imitating?
200
Type of play where children play independently, but alongside one another, using the same toys and materials.
What is Parallel Play?
200
Shortening your sentences, emphasizing important words, speaking slowly and showing objects or pointing.
What is Say Less, Stress, Go Slow, Show?
300
This teacher role maintains tight control over the children and their activities.
What is The Director Role?
300
This stage typically occurs around 18-24 months when the child can demonstrate a burst in vocabulary and begins to combine words. She also starts to take more turns in a conversation.
What is the Combiner?
300
Sitting on the floor or lying on your stomach next to the child are examples of doing this.
What is being Face-to-Face?
300
The 3 different levels of involvement in climbing the ladder to interaction.
What are Attending, Participating and Interacting?
300
Using "fun" words or giving specific names of objects are examples of doing this.
What is Labeling Things?
400
This teacher sits with the children but hardly interacts with them, even when they initiate.
What is The Too-Quiet Teacher Role?
400
This child is becoming really interested in others and wanting attention. She does not yet know how to send messages directly to another person to get what she wants.
What is The Discoverer?
400
Saying "good job" or "good talking" are NOT good examples of doing this.
What is Commenting?
400
What the S and S stand for in SSCAN.
What are Small Groups Are Best and Set Up an Appropriate Activity?
400
Having too much of this in your classroom encourages running, fighting, and noisemaking; and discourages intimate peer interactions and quiet activities such as book reading.
What is Too Much Open Space?
500
This teacher is tuned to the children's abilities, needs and interests. She responds with warmth and interest and encourages them to take part in interactions.
What is The Responsive Partner Role?
500
The Six Stages of Communication and Language Development.
What are Discoverers, Communicators, First Words Users, Combiners, Early Sentence Users, and Later Sentence Users?
500
Putting into words what you think a child means and wants to say.
What is Interpreting?
500
In this type of play, the child uses materials to create or construct something from a plan he has in mind. The child may spend a great deal of time on one activity, concentrating on achieving his goal such as building a tower.
What is Constructive Play?
500
This type of peer grouping is the most highly organized where children take on clear roles where they are usually highly verbal and imaginative.