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Are You Talking to Me?: The Development of Language Skills in Young Children
92nd Street YWonderPlay Conference
November 2012
Lydia H. Soifer, [email protected] www.soifercenter.com
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Slide 2November 2012
What do you mean when you say…?
• Speech
• Language
• Communication
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Slide 3November 2012
Oral Language is the Foundation of Literacy
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Slide 4November 2012
Speak
Write
Listen
Read
Components of Language
Form
Use Content
The Components of Language
• FORM– Sound system– Word structure– Grammar
• CONTENT – Meaning component– Vocabulary and beyond
• USE– Reasons to use language (purposes)– How to use language (intentions)
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Slide 5November 2012
How Talking and Listening Become Reading and Writing
• Form– Sound System - the essence of decoding– Word Structure - rules for word formation
• Spelling and pronunciation– Grammar - rules for understanding and creating sentences
• Reading comprehension and writing• Content
– Meaning component of language• World knowledge, vocabulary, word knowledge and use
• Use– Purposes and intentions of language
• Reading with intent; purposes for reading/writing; monitoring comprehension
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Slide 6November 2012
It All Happens So Fast!!18 to 24 months
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Slide 7November 2012
• Understands 300 words• Uses 50 recognizable words• Speaks more than gestures• Wants to hear stories over & over• Uses rising intonation to ask a question• Shakes head to answer questions• Follows 2 related commands• Begins to use verbs e.g., “do”, “go”• Starts to ask, “What’s that?”
• Talks about what is happening in the moment
• Combines two words e.g., “more juice” and “go car”
• Tells name when asked• Points to 6 or more body parts when
asked• Turns pages of a book• Imitates housework• Joins in songs and familiar rhymes
Two to three years
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Slide 8November 2012
• Understands over 500 words• Uses 500 words• Is intelligible 50-75% of the time• Engages in eye contact during a
conversation• Holds a conversation for two turns• Uses words to express frustration• Listens to a story for 10-20 minutes• Answers simple “who”, “where”, “what”
questions• Understands and uses simple
prepositions (in, on, out)
• Begins to ask “yes/no” questions• Uses negative phrases, “no want”• Talks to self while playing• Begins to use past tense, “kissed”• Forms plurals by adding –s• Refers to self by name and with the
pronoun, “me”• Uses many 2-3 word utterances• Names pictures; points to pictures
when named• Matches a few colors• Knows “big” and “little”• Holds up fingers to tell age
Three to Four Years
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Slide 9November 2012
• Understands over 1,000 words• Uses eye contact consistently in
conversation• Asks many questions, including,
“What do” and “Who”• Understands simple time concepts,
morning, lunch time, night, tomorrow• Understands spatial words, in front of,
behind• Begins to use –s for the 3rd person
present tense• Uses can’t and won’t
• Uses and• Uses 3-4 word sentences• Uses more than one sentence type• Can tell a story• Can speak about events in the recent
past• Uses language to comment, question
and respond• Stays with an activity 10-15 minutes• Is 75% intelligible to a stranger
Four to Five Years
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Slide 10November 2012
• Understands over 2000 words• Uses 1500-2000 words• Speaks clearly most of the time• Describes pictures in complete
sentences• Makes up stories• Uses all simple pronouns correctly• Speaks in 4-5 word sentences and some
longer utterances• Uses past, present, and future tenses• Uses irregular verbs (ate, slept, drank)• Asks, “why”
• Knows common opposites• Can speak of some imaginary conditions,
(I wish…)• Uses some complex sentences• Plays dramatically• Talks a lot• Listens and attends to stories,
conversations and movies• Pronounces most sounds correctly• Discusses remote events• Defines objects by use• Understands “same” and “different”• Stays with an activity for 15 minutes• Uses many sentence types
Verbal Techniques to Facilitate Thinking and Problem Solving with Language
(Paul, 1995)
• Questions to help children formulate ideas• Summarizing• Cloze statements• Requesting elaboration• Preparatory sets • Contingent queries • Comprehension questions• Turn-taking cues• Either – or choices
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Slide 11November 2012
Gingerbread ManCreating Communication Challenges in the Context of a Thematic Activity
• Questions to help children formulated ideas
– “I think the Gingerbread Man was mean to run away from the old
woman. How do you think she felt?”
• Summarizing
– “Who can tell us all the animals who chased the Gingerbread Man?
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Slide 12November 2012
Gingerbread Man (continued)
Creating Communication Challenges in the Context of a Thematic Activity
• Cloze statements
– “When the old woman made the Gingerbread Man, she used
________.”
• Requesting elaboration especially with conjunctions
– Child: The Gingerbread Man ran.
– Teacher: Yes, he ran as fast as….”
– Child: The cow chased him.
– Teacher: The cow chased him because…”
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Slide 13November 2012
Gingerbread Man (continued)
Creating Communication Challenges in the Context of a Thematic Activity
• Preparatory sets to let the child know what needs to be
communicated
– “You need to ask her for the glue to finish your mask.”
• Contingent queries used to prompt the child to provide a
missing piece of information.
– Child: “Want crayon.”
– Teacher: “Which crayon do you need?”
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Slide 14November 2012
Gingerbread Man (continued)
Creating Communication Challenges in the Context of a Thematic Activity
• Comprehension questions can be used to elicit
successively higher levels of information starting with
simple perceptual judgments to more complex inferential
comprehension.
– “Which animal was the biggest?”
– “Why did the fox say he’d give the Gingerbread Man a ride?”
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Slide 15November 2012
Gingerbread Man (continued)
Creating Communication Challenges in the Context of a Thematic Activity
• Turn-taking cues that put the conversational ball back in
the child’s court
– “Oh?” (or an expectant pause at the end of an adult utterance)
• Either-or choices used to provide the child with alternative
comments to be used in a situation
– “Do you want more crackers? You can say, ‘Yes, please’ or ‘No,
thank you’ “
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Slide 16November 2012
Early Signs of Learning DisordersThree to Five Year Olds
• Poor understanding of classroom instructions• Limitations in language expression• Problems comprehending language• Problems learning new words• Problems mastering speech sounds• Poor retention of information when listening or being
read to aloud• Poor or inconsistent mastery of number or letter symbols
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Slide 17November 2012
Early Signs of Learning DisordersThree to Five Year Olds (continued)
• Limitations in social interactions• Limitations in play• Poor graphomotor skills• Memory problems• Difficulty with time, space, and number concepts• Difficulty learning sequential information• Problems with visual discrimination and/or visual-spatial
weaknesses
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Slide 18November 2012
Early Signs of Learning DisordersThree to Five Year Olds (continued)
• Difficulty learning color and shape names• Trouble remembering classmates names• Word finding problems• Problems learning nursery rhymes• Persistent articulation/speech problems• Difficulty learning sound patterns and/or sound-symbol
associations• Short attention span for language related activities
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Slide 19November 2012
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Slide 20November 2012
Are You Talking to Me?: The Development of Language Skills in Young Children
92nd Street YWonderPlay Conference
November 2012
Lydia H. Soifer, [email protected] www.soifercenter.com