60 months

From Children’s Language Development from 6 months to 8 years http://www.earlyyearscareers.com/eyc/learning-and-development/childrens-language-development-6-months-8-years/ Some teaching points? Can the children in my target group do these highlighted things? Can use many descriptive words spontaneously (both adjectives and adverbs) *Knows common opposites: big-little, hard-soft, heave-light, etc *Able to count to ten *Speech should be completely intelligible *Should have all vowels and the following consonants; m,p,b,h,w,k,g,t,d,n,ng,y *Should be able to repeat sentences (containing up to 9 words) *Should be able to define common objects in terms of use (hat, shoe, chair) *Should be able to follow three commands given without interruptions *Should understand and use simple concepts of time such as ‘morning’, ‘afternoon’, ‘night’, ‘later’, ‘after’, ‘tomorrow’, ‘yesterday’ and ‘soon’ *Should be using long sentences and some complex sentences *Speech on the whole, should be grammatically correct

6 years

*In addition to the above consonants these should be mastered: f, v, sh, zh, th, *Speech should be completely intelligible *Should be able to tell a story connected to a picture, seeing relationships between objects and experiences

Marzano's Academic Language

Can I simplify the Marzano steps to learning new vocab so that we can use it in class

Academic Language:

Introducing topic vocabulary - to coincide with Wa Kitea

Theme: Performance, activities include:

• Making puppets
• Puppet theatre
• Play Big Book (The Ant and the Grasshoppers)
• Dress ups
• Ipads - making videos of performances

Vocab introduction (brainstorm and general discussion around meaning)

Choose vocab to focus on - Audience

Tell your partner what the word audience means?

Think, Pair, Share (use talk moves language - do you agree? Can you add to that for me?

Draw what the word Audience means to you…

Repeat steps 2 and 3 for another word -  script

Use the words in conversations, writing, descriptions

Words become a part of our vocab

“I enjoyed it when the audience watched our performance” Lilly

“I could see that the people on stage were using a script” Danny