Preschool children
a. are also speech models.
b. rarely teach others new words.
c. play and mostly use newly learned words in play.
d. have growing vocabularies only when teachers act appropriately
D. Choose the one best answer.
1. Briana is staring at the wall clock. The teacher might say
a. “You’re wondering what time it is.”
b. “You are looking at our classroom clock. It tells us what time it is.”
c. “Tell me about the clock.”
d. “You’ve noticed our clock. Do you have one at your house?”
E. Write teacher statements that are an example of a teacher using (1) closure, (2) asking a child to demonstrate a word physically, (3) asking a child to relate a new word to past experience, and (4) a teacher defining the word whistle found in a story the teacher is reading. Example of a teacher putting into words what child is doing might be “You are using a paint brush by holding it in both of your hands.”