A Language Preprimer
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126 spiral bound pages
Ages: 4-8 years
Item CP-023 $24.95
This is one of the most important books you'll find to help young students prepare to access the language awaiting them in their school curriculum!
This book is intended for speech/language pathologists or teachers working with young children in preschool, kindergarten or primary grades---helping these young students to learn the language of literacy -- before they learn to read!
Many of our youngsters with language impairment fail to learn words denoting relational concepts, small functional words, and words used in classroom directions.
Youngsters whose language skills are weak sometimes omit unstressed words in sentences during early language development. They bypass such words using only words more heavily weighted in meaning, failing to learn the meaning of some of these small functional words. Some children learning English as a second language are confused over the meanings of English prepositions, quantitative words, and articles. Some such words do not translate directly into English. Yet children are expected to read and comprehend sentences and paragraphs that include these words in first grade!
Our young students with limited language skills or those learning English as a second language need to focus on the meanings of these relational concept terms, prepositions, conjunctions and language of directions before they learn to read. This is necessary for young students simply to make sense out of early reading materials!
How can we help?
Use the hundreds of illustrations and dozens of lesson pages in this book to present hard-to-teach words.
words that occur in early reading books
a
almost
in
there
an
first
out
between
each
last
on
at
both
day
under
and
another
night
into
out
some
front
over
about
many
back
around
of
alone
beginning
front
except
together
end
back
too
some
now
through
to
all
later
at
ready
none
until
here
and more!
words in simple directions
same
match
follow
different
connect
trace
go together
line under
copy
compare
circle around
rhyme
opposite
basic vocabulary words found in many language arts lessons
action words
places in town
vehicles
pronouns
foods
weather words
family members
clothes
shapes
rooms inside a house
useful things
containers
animals
feelings
baby animals
