One strategy to teach language development is to put your own thoughts and/or actions in words and say them aloud to children ("I am dipping my brush in the paint carefully and wiping it on the side of the cup before placing it on the easel").
What is self-talk?
100
The ability to attend to the sound system of language separate from word meaning.
What is phonological awareness?
100
This is what children acquire when they know letter recognition, letter-sound correspondences and the alphabetic sequence.
What is alphabetic knowledge?
100
As children learn about this, they learn what words are and that they have meaning.
What is print awareness?
100
This develops over time and follows common stages.
What is early writing development?
200
Another strategy to teach language to children is to mirror their actions with words ("I see you are scrunching your face and stomping your foot. You must be feeling angry.").
What is parallel talk?
200
Phonological awareness instruction should be _____.
What is fun and playful?
200
Using this is considered one of the best ways to teach letter names.
What are the children's names?
200
Developing print awareness can occur through active involvement with environmental print and shared _______ activities.
What is reading and writing?
200
This is an important area where children can create a variety of work including journals, making signs and posters, make notes for friends and/or group or individual books.
What is the writing center?
300
From age 3 onward, children must build a vocabulary bank of these per year.
What are 2,500 words?
300
This is the easiest level of phonological awareness on the continuum.
What is rhyme and alliteration?
300
Learning letter names helps children to learn this.
What are letter sounds?
300
When teaching concept of word, we focus on letters grouped tightly together and _____.
What is white space in between words?
300
This is something that teachers should NOT do during these early years of writing.
What is correct children's writing attempts?
400
Using this strategy, we provide children with ongoing conversation to extend opportunities for them think about their responses and put them into words.
What is "strive for five"?
400
This is what we call instruction when print is attached to letter sounds.
What is phonics?
400
A good strategy to enhance letter knowledge is to have children search for letters here.
What is environmental print?
400
Another strategy involves having children point to each word as it is read. It is important that this step is done first.
What is memorizing the text?
400
We must explain this to children when we put writing materials in centers throughout the room.
What are the materials; why and how they should be used?
500
An optimal language environment of quality verbal exchanges, more cooperative interactions and greater use of language-related activities takes place here.
What are small, well-defined places? (small group and/or learning centers)
500
Research says that this is the result of a lack of PA training in preschool for kindergarteners and first graders.
What is an inability to make sense of spelling-sound correspondences from print or to benefit from phonics instruction?
500
Children have grasped this when they understand that letters are distinct from one another and have corresponding sounds and that when letters are combined in different sequences they form written words.
What is the alphabetic principle?
500
This routine offers many opportunities to track text, teach about directionality and return sweep, identify letters and letter sounds, learn about conventions of print, learn about concept of word and match oral language to text.
What is morning message?
500
Most importantly, we want to give children these types of opportunities to write each day.