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 11: Overcoming Challenges to Conversations (continued)
Part II. Chicken Pox, Oatmeal, and Trucks
Setting: Ms. J. is conducting a home visit with Mrs. F. Her sons Lannie (thirty-two months) and Bernard (four-and-a-half years) are playing with some small trucks.What happened:
Ms. J.: It looks like Lannie's chicken pox are gone. Did they last as long as Bernard's?
Lannie: Pox.
Bernard: Poxy, Poxy, Poxy.
Mrs. F.: No, not so long. But he sure was cranky. He cried and scratched all day.
Ms. J.: Did it help to give him an oatmeal bath like I showed you last time we met?
Lannie: O-meal?
Bernard: Oatmeal in the bath? Yuck. Did he eat it?
Mrs. F.: Yes, it helped him relax.
Bernard: I had chicken pox, too.
Ms. J.: So, tell me about your GED class.
Bernard: I got a new truck. (Bernard shows the truck to Ms. J.)
Mrs. F: Bernard, go sit down.
Ms. J: That's nice, Bernard.
Bernard: Vroom, vroom.
Lannie: Vroom, vroom.
Bernard: Stop copying me.
Lannie: Vroom, vroom. (Bernard pushes Lannie and Lannie starts crying.)
Mrs. F.: Stop fighting. (Mrs. F. turns to Ms. J.) These two are always bickering.
Ms. J.: Well, that's just how kids are, I guess. Now, try again to tell me about your GED class.
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