Early Childhood Standards of Quality for ... - State of Michigan

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ELE: Language and Early Literacy Development6. Understand and respond appropriately to non-verbal expressions andgestures.7. Show progress in listening to and understanding both their homelanguage and English (if non-English-speaking children).Examples of Experiences and Strategies• Children are greeted by name and with a short conversation to buildattention and listening skills.• The daily routine includes participatory stories and poems.• The program includes action games, finger plays, and songs.• Adults create opportunities for children to practice turn taking inconversations.• The program includes role models who are home languagecommunicators of the child’s natural language; e.g., deaf role modelswhose first language is ASL, role models in spoken languages other thanthe primary spoken language of the program.Questions for Reflection1. To what extent do adults carefully attend to children’s requests andsuggestions?2. How does the daily routine support adults in their use of simple, clearphrases with preschoolers?3. To what extent do adults have realistic expectations of children’s verbal,signed, and listening skills?4. How do adults help children learn audience skills?5. Early Learning Expectation: Children begin to develop strategiesthat assist them in viewing a variety of multimedia materialseffectively and critically.Children typically:1. View multimedia materials for a variety of purposes; e.g., to gaininformation, for pleasure, to add to their understanding of written materials.2. Use different strategies for understanding multimedia; e.g., makingpredictions using what they already know, using the structure of themedia, linking themselves and their experiences to the content of themedia, asking relevant questions.3. Begin to compare information across sources, question the content andproducer’s choices, and discriminate between fantasy and reality (criticalviewing).82 Michigan Department of Education
ELE: Language and Early Literacy DevelopmentExamples of Experiences and Strategies• The environment is arranged to permit children to have access to avariety of multimedia materials; e.g., recorded books in various formats,short films, material on computers.• Adults make themselves available to talk with children about theirexperiences with multimedia.• Parents are given information about appropriate uses of multimedia withyoung children.Questions for Reflection1. In what ways do the program leaders make information about multimediainfluences/effects on children available to the staff and parents?2. What daily opportunities are available for children to interact with highquality multimedia material? Some examples are:• recorded books• film representations of popular stories• films with age-appropriate content information• music3. How does staff link multimedia with art, music, and other learning areas?4. Do adults utilize multimedia to help meet child and program goals andobjectives?6. Early Learning Expectation: Children develop positive attitudesabout themselves as literate beings--as readers, writers, speakers,viewers, and listeners.Children typically:1. Choose to read, write, listen, speak, and view for enjoyment andinformation, and to expand their curiosity.Examples of Experiences and Strategies• The range of literacy materials and activities provides ample choices sothat all children can experience positive encounters with books and otherwritten materials.• Materials in science and mathematics are chosen for the classroom tomaintain and enhance children’s curiosity in these domains and promoteincreased engagement.• Children observe staff members demonstrating and expressing their owncuriosity and joy.• Children are given appropriate praise for their attempts to expressthemselves.Early Childhood Standards of Quality for Prekindergarten 83
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