Instruction in the standards requires a focus not only on the learner concepts and competencies but the supportive practices employed by the adults in the classroom setting. 

Concepts and Competencies

The learner will:

• Connect prior knowledge to unfamiliar words
• Makes prediction about word meanings
• Participate in discussions about unfamiliar words
• Use inquiry skills to define unknown words while listening to informational text

Supportive Practices

The adult will:

• Model researching unfamiliar words in a text
• Provide experiences to engage with picture/text connections (e.g. cooking, construction, gardening)
• Model how to use context and text features to define unknown words.

 

This resource was created by the Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL). 

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Office of Child Development and Early Learning, OCDEL, Language, Literacy, Reading, Writing, Language Arts