Essay Questions:
Tell why it is necessary to assess childrens spoken language skills at the beginning of the year and describe how you would do it.
How can you promote learning professional-child and child-child conversations in the learning environment?
Write a narrative describing plans for reading a bilingual book to the children, including why you chose this book. What activities would go along with the book? How would you incorporate social and emotional awareness into the lesson?
Read Figure 5.5. Give an explicit example for each strategy to show how children can develop early production of language.