Related VPK Language and Communication Standards
- A. LISTENING
- Gains meaning by listening
Benchmark: Child shows understanding by asking and answering relevant questions, adding comments relevant to the topic, and reacting appropriately to what is said.
- Gains meaning by listening
- B. SPEAKING
- Speaks clearly enough to be understood without contextual
clues
Benchmark: Child’s speech is understood by both a familiar and an unfamiliar adult.
- Speaks clearly enough to be understood without contextual
clues
- C. VOCABULARY
- Shows an understanding of words and their meanings
Benchmark a: Child has age-appropriate vocabulary in several categories and demonstrates a wide variety of words within each category.
Benchmark b: Child has mastery of instructional language of the classroom and objects in the classroom.
Benchmark c: Child understands or knows the meaning of many thousands of words, many more than he or she uses.
- Shows an understanding of words and their meanings
- C. VOCABULARY
- Uses an expanded vocabulary to describe many objects, actions, and events.
Benchmark a: Child uses a large speaking vocabulary, adding new words weekly.
- A. EMERGENT READING
- Shows motivation for reading
Benchmark a: Child enjoys reading and reading related activities.
Benchmark c: Child asks to be read to or asks the meaning of written text.
- A. EMERGENT READING
- Shows understanding of text read aloud
Benchmark a: Child retells or reenacts a story after it is read aloud.
Benchmark b: Child asks and answers appropriate questions about the story.
- Shows understanding of text read aloud
Dialogic Reading is an effective strategy
to enhance vocabulary
and oral language skills. Before we learn about the strategy,
let’s reflect on why it is important to incorporate vocabulary and language instruction
into the classroom.
Many children lack world knowledge because they have had limited experiences that facilitate rich vocabulary. Many of these children also have very limited vocabularies – they are lacking in knowledge of numerous words. Dr. Julie Washington, an expert in early language development, suggests that one way to provide children with world knowledge and word knowledge is through books.
Dialogic Reading is a strategy that is used with books to promote vocabulary and oral language skills. In Dialogic Reading, the book becomes a shared visual and verbal context in which you and your children can learn new words. The children learn to communicate thoughts and ideas using these new words in increasingly complex phrases. It is a very effective method of increasing the size and diversity of children’s knowledge about the world and the words we use to describe it.
The following video is an introduction to Dialogic Reading by Dr. Beth Phillips.
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