Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community:
Emerging Literacy: Linking Social Competence to Learning
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From Cooing to Talking: Partners in Conversation
Handout 11: Overcoming Challenges to Conversations
Instructions: Read and discuss both of the following descriptions of interactions between children and adults. Then focus on the description assigned to your group. Identify the challenges that limit adults' conversations with the children and suggest solutions. Rewrite the interaction so the adults respond to the children and engage them in conversation. Share your solutions and rewrites with the other groups. You will have 20 minutes to complete this assignment.
Part I. Washing the Paintbrushes
Setting: In a Head Start FCC home, Julia (four years) and Roberto (three-and-a-half years) offer to help their FCC provider, Ms. B., wash the paintbrushes.What Happened:
Julia: Can I help?
Roberto: Me, too?
Ms. B.: Not today. Last time you got water all over the floor.
Julia: We didn't mean to. We want to help.
Roberto: Yeah.
Ms. B.: I said, not today. Maybe tomorrow.
Roberto: We'll keep the water in the sink.
Ms. B.: (Ms. B. turns and looks around the kitchen.) There's lots of other things to pick up. Go pick up the dress-up clothes and pots and pans. You were both playing with them.
Julia: Yeah, we had fun. I was the mom, and Roberto was the dad.
Roberto: I was a good dad. I cooked the dinner.
Ms. B.: Go pick up. I don't need your help with the brushes.
Julia: Maybe tomorrow?
Ms. B.: Okay. Maybe tomorrow.
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