Language Development in the Primary Years

In this week’s reading and web resources, you find that children receive more formal instruction in the primary years. With this change there is a shift in how exploratory activities evolve into investigative play. Please respond to this three-part discussion in three paragraphs and support your responses with research and references from your reading:

·       Use and identify a story book of your choice, design a lesson for a Read Aloud that you would use in your classroom or center to enhance the primary child’s language development. Model your lesson after the one you observed in SEDL’s video: Read Aloud: Bringing Stories to Life.

·       In your role as early childhood professional, describe a creative drama based on your selected Read Aloud activity for use in the primary years .

·       Apply your knowledge as an early childhood professional to a discussion on investigative play and developmentally appropriate practices in a primary classroom. Please be sure to support your answer with research and references.

SEDL. (2012, Aug 17). Read aloud: bringing stories to life. [Video file]. Retrieved fromhttp://www.sedl.org/afterschool/toolkits/literacy/pr_read_aloud.html

Note: Closed-captioning is available with this video athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVN3JT_Eals

NAEYC. (2009). Core considerations in developmentally appropriate practices, pp. 9–16. Retrieved fromhttp://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/PSDAP.pdf

Coplan, R. J., & Weeks, M. (2009). Shy and soft-spoken: shyness, pragmatic language, and socio-emotional adjustment in early childhood. Infant & Child Development, 18(3), 238–254.