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 this instead of asking questions helps the child to take a turn
What are Commenting?
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
When talking to ____ language stage your sentences can be longer because the child is listening to your tone of voice, but when talking to _____ language stage your sentences need to be shorter and more repetitive because they are starting to understand what you are saying
What is Discoverer and Communicator.
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 "you are putting on your jacket" or "the play doe feels soft" are good examples of doing this.
What is Commenting?
400
These two types of group play have a lot of social interaction (p 187)
What are associative play and cooperative play
400
"We can't play outside because it is raining" and "How would you feel if you were the spider in the story" are examples of these specific ways to extend the topic.
What is explaining and projecting?
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.