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ELG Language

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Communication   The act of understanding and/or expressing wants, needs, feelings and thoughts with others. Forms of communication include crying, vocalizing, facial expressions, speech, gestures, sign language, and/or pictures  
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Communication Skills and Knowledge   The developing ability to communicate nonverbally and verbally  
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Dual language learner   Children who acquire two or more languages simultaneously, as well as learn a second language while continuing to develop their first language  
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Early literacy   Describes the foundations of reading and writing which begins in infancy  
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ELL   English language learner  
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Emergent literacy   The view that literacy learning begins a birth and is encouraged through participation with adults in meaningful activities; these literacy behaviors change and eventually become conventional over time  
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Expressive language   Children’s use and knowledge of words in spoken language  
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Extend   (1) To make a longer sentence or add to a sentence a child has said; (2) to allow for more play by adding new ideas or materials to the setting  
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Interest in Print   The developing interest in engaging with print in books and in the environment  
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Home language   First language a child learns to speak  
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Label   To attach a word to a picture, object, action, or event, either verbally or in writing  
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Language   Words, signs and symbols used by a group of people to communicate  
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Parallel talk   An educator talking to a child, describing what the child is doing  
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Phoneme   The smallest units of sound that combine to form syllables and words, for example, b-i-g is three phonemes  
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Phonological awareness   A range from beginning awareness of speech sounds and rhythms to rhyme awareness and sound similarities and finally the awareness of syllables and phonemes  
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Predictable books   Books that use repetitive lines and familiar patterns that make it possible for the listener to know or guess what is coming next  
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Receptive language   The process of gaining meaning from spoken words  
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Self-talk   Words or dialogue adults use to describe what they are doing  
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Syntax   words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences  
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Vocabulary   The collection of words that a child understands or uses to communicate  
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Vocalizations   Producing sounds with the voice  
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