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ELG Language
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Communication Skills and Knowledge | The developing ability to communicate nonverbally and verbally |
| 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 |
| Early literacy | Describes the foundations of reading and writing which begins in infancy |
| ELL | English language learner |
| 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 |
| Expressive language | Children’s use and knowledge of words in spoken language |
| 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 |
| Interest in Print | The developing interest in engaging with print in books and in the environment |
| Home language | First language a child learns to speak |
| Label | To attach a word to a picture, object, action, or event, either verbally or in writing |
| Language | Words, signs and symbols used by a group of people to communicate |
| Parallel talk | An educator talking to a child, describing what the child is doing |
| Phoneme | The smallest units of sound that combine to form syllables and words, for example, b-i-g is three phonemes |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Receptive language | The process of gaining meaning from spoken words |
| Self-talk | Words or dialogue adults use to describe what they are doing |
| Syntax | words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences |
| Vocabulary | The collection of words that a child understands or uses to communicate |
| Vocalizations | Producing sounds with the voice |
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marylu