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
These are referred to as the four S's
What is say less, go slow, stress and show
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
Raising your eyebrows, leaning forward and counting to ten in your head are good examples of
What is Waiting?
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
These are referred to as labels
What are action words, location words, describing words, object name and part and adverbs?
300
This teacher role maintains tight control over the children and their activities.
What is The Director Role?
300
This language 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
Giving a child a jar with something interesting in there with the lid closed tight is an example of this
What is Communication Temptations?
400
This teacher focuses on getting things done as quickly as possible
What is The Time Keeper 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 "you are painting" or "The car is going fast" are good examples of this.
What is Commenting?
400
This is where you position a child so that both of you can see each other
What is across from you?
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.