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Preparing for Success
Why do young children from poverty homes have difficulty learning?
What can be done about it? This book answers those questions, provides support for the viewpoint expressed and offers concrete suggestions for meeting the learning needs of children from poverty homes.
Language development differences between children from low income families and those from middle class families are documented and discussed.
Dozens of quick classroom-based actions and activities are offered for:
Increasing teacher/child conversations
Increasing child/child conversations
Scaffolding comprehension
Scaffolding expression
Inviting child initiative
A comprehensive approach for meeting students'
language and learning needs is proposed, which:
Permits specification of language and learning goals simultaneously
Covers five levels of language development
Describes for each of the five levels:
1) Language behaviors
2) Curricular goals
3) Suggested materials
4) Appropriate interactions
5) Sample activity
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