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(a)
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Use oral language to engage in exploratory and imaginative play:
- create play situations
- interpret peer's response to ideas
- explain idea for play
- play co-operatively with other children
- express suggestions given by playmate.
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(b)
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Use the appropriate strategies to communicate meaning when speaking:
- find ideas to explore (before)
- tell a story about self (during)
- add detail (after).
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(c)
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Use language cues and conventions to construct and communicate meaning when speaking:
- use and apply the different functions of language (pragmatic)
- tell or dramatize stories using own words and appropriate gestures (textual)
- use different sentence patterns (syntactic)
- manipulate sounds and words in shared, guided, and independent activities (lexical/semantic)
- explore sounds and rhymes (graphophonic)
- use various tools and techniques to represent ideas (other cues and conventions).
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(d)
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Converse on personal experiences, preferences, and topics of interest:
- talk to peers about likes and dislikes
- express interest in different topics
- share significant items from home and community
- relate events to teacher
- initiate conversations
- ask politely to borrow something
- take part in group activities such as circle or story time
- share stories in large or small groups
- share poems, rhymes, songs, and finger plays.
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