Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community:
Emerging Literacy: Linking Social Competence to Learning
Module 2
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From Cooing to Talking: Partners in Conversation
Handout 10: Observing Language Skills (continued)
Overview
Part II: What Do You Understand? What Can You Tell Me?
Instructions: Use the information you have collected about the child's language skills and Appendix C: Emerging Literacy: From Cooing to Conventional Reading and Writing to answer the following questions. Record your answers on a piece of blank paper or in a journal. Complete Part II before your next coaching session.Does this child understand verbal and nonverbal language? How do you know?
How does this child communicate his/her needs?
How does this child make requests?
How does this child communicate without words (smiles, gestures, pointing, body language)?
How does this child communicate with words (single words, two-word sentences, conversations)?
What are examples of the child's receptive language (listens to and follows directions)?
What are examples of the child's expressive language (reports on an event or experience clearly and in sequence)?
What strategies can Head Start staff and the child's family use to support the child's language skills?
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