| Emergent
Literacy: Language |
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"Feed your child a diet of rich language
experiences throughout the day. Talk with your
infants and young children freequently in short,
simple sentences... describe the world around
them to expose them to words."
Start Early, Finish Strong. U.S. Department of
Education. America Reads Challenge, 1999.
Basic findings: The stages children move through
in learning to speak.
- They babble in syllable combinations, typically
from 7 to 18 months, exploring sounds to experiment
with oral language.
- First words are usually spoken from 10 to
18 months. A naming explosion also occurs around
this time.
- Two words are usually combined around 18 months.
- First sentences frequently occur from 24 to
30 months.
- Eventually children acquire phonemic awareness,
the ability to recognize spoken words as a sequence
of sounds
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