Domain: NC Foundations for Early Learning: Language Development and Communication (LDC)
Subdomain: Learning to Communicate
Goal: Children speak audibly and express thoughts, and feelings, and ideas clearly.
Skill Progression: Language production
Age: 48-54 Months
Click here to go to all skills for ages 48-54 Months.Creates songs and rhymes
Situations for Observation of Skill
Interact with the child during play activities, learning centers, and story time.
Elicitation Strategy
Ask the child to make up his own songs, rhymes and finger plays.
Behavior Observed
The child can make up silly songs and rhymes.
Routines-based Intervention (Embedded Instruction)
After children have experienced many rhyming books, songs, and rhyming finger plays, adults can let children try making up their own.
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2015
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