CD2 / Psych2

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CD2 / Psych2

• Chapter 10 Language and Communication in
  Preschoolers

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Chapter Topics

• How children learn
• Vocabulary
• Syntax (word order)
• How to make sentences
• How adults should respond to grammar and
  vocabulary mistakes
• How children learn to write
• Appropriate books for preschoolers

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How Children Learn Vocabulary

• Learning 6-9 new words a day!
• Fast-mapping
• Grammar rules
• Plurals (mice, horses and cats)
• Past tense (listen/listened, goed/went,
  runned/ran
• Prepositional phrases (locatives)
• Beside, between
• In front, behind

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How Children Learn Syntax

• By using language
• Talk to children!
• Listen to children!
• By hearing language spoken correctly
• Children will correct their own errors over time

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How Children Learn to Make Sentences

• Story reading
• Story telling
• Conversations
• With older children
• With peers
• With adults

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Responding to Grammar and Vocabulary Mistakes

• Rephrase their comment or question with correct
  words and syntax
• Can we goes a park this day?
• Do you want to go to the park today?
• I eated the max-n-cheese on the other night, when
  gwamma comed over some time.
• You ate some macaroni and cheese for dinner when
  grandma came over last night?

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How Children Learn to Write

• Pencil grip development
• Fist grip, finger grip, tripod grip
• Stages of drawing
• Scribbles, shapes and lines, recognizable items
• Stages of writing
• Long scribbles then short scribbles
• Letter shapes and letter combinations
• Words

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Books for Preschoolers

• Why read to preschoolers?
• Ways preschoolers read to themselves
• Types of books that develop
• Vocabulary
• Self-awareness and community awareness
• Social skills
• Life skills

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Thursday Activity Stations

• Childrens reading
• Childrens art
• Childrens writing
• Childrens talking
• Preparation for Thursday
• Read everything in this chapter about preschooler
  reading, art, talking and writing!