• Encourages children to ask questions and helps them find answers that satisfy their curiosity or prompt more questions
• Encourages children to ask questions and helps them find answers that satisfy their curiosity or prompt more question
• Creates a loving and trusting environment in which children feel comfortable asking questions and sharing information
• Engages in frequent conversations with children, asking open-ended questions that promote thinking, reflection, and exchange of ideas
• Creates spaces and setting for intimate conversations
• Encourages children to retell stories in their own words and dictate stories that are written down and shared
• Enriches children’s pretend play taking on a role, introducing new words and ideas, and contributing props-without taking over the story
• Reads books with children several times a day-individually or in small groups-including books with multicultural themes, rhymes, prose, repetition, and high-quality illustrations
• Incorporates a variety of language, literacy, and writing activities into the daily program