Child will develop the ability to speak and/ or sign in increasingly complete, complex, precise, and varied ways.
Ways educators might support the child's development
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Choose a sentence that has a complex structure
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Engage in word play by altering the vocabulary in the sentence
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Chart sentence and unpack meaning
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Use sentence starters to practice making new sentences with a similar structure
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Research the bases and parts of words with children; look for and point out meaning in the structure of words
Child will develop their ability to listen and understand complete, complex, precise, and varied language.
Ways educators might support the child's development
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Model strategies for self-monitoring, understanding, and using questions to clarify
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Ask peers to elaborate or role play the ways in which partners can request more information to increase understanding
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Structure activities that include speaking with partners and using specific words or parts of speech; for example, interviewing about something in the past that requires understanding of verbs in past tense
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Use think-aloud or sentence starters to model the thinking process and encourage understanding of one’s own or a character’s feelings, changes, motivations, and inner thoughts
Child uses language to relate to others according to the social expectations of their family, community, and culture.
Ways educators might support the child's development
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Establish norms for social communication in the learning environment
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Teach children to identify micro-aggressions: brief hostile, negative prejudicial slights and insults toward any group
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Ask children to write from the perspective of someone from a different time or place
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Invite children to develop and share a point of view on a topic of interest
Child enjoys, attends to, understands, and makes meanings from spoken and written language of storytelling and books.
Ways educators might support the child's development
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Give children time to respond to texts in a variety of ways
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Assign parts to act out a book or story
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Encourage children to collaborate, improvise, and use props to perform the story
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Establish centers where children can make art or explore science materials in response to books or stories on a theme or topic
Child develops the ability to recognize and manipulate the different sounds in spoken language(s).
Ways educators might support the child's development
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Invite children to compose a song for a friend by changing the lyrics of a favorite song to personalize it
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Play a familiar card game, and replace cards with images and words that match; for example, children can play “Go Fish” and ask for a word that rhymes with the card they have
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Invite students to create their own rhyming poems, songs, or haikus
Child uses materials and/ or language to make meaning for themselves and/or an audience.
Ways educators might support the child's development
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Welcome and celebrate the variety of children’s composing processes
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Discuss what makes an argument effective and how to find an equally effective counterargument
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Provide models of approaches to composition; discuss and chart an author’s intent or purpose across various types of texts in an author’s body of work (e.g., discuss the purpose of Patricia Polacco’s Chicken Sunday , Thank You, Mr. Falker , and Pink and Say )
Child views, creates, and makes meaning of visual communication and multimedia documentation, which includes drawings, collections, photographs, videos and displays.
Ways educators might support the child's development
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Invite a video editor to visit the class and ask them to explain the process of experimenting and editing with different tools to modify size, color, and shape for intended message
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Provide tools for children to make their own videos
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Support use of critical media literacy by provocations to discuss credibility and evidence
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Teach children to identify bias in media
