Brainstorming: "Imagination caps: how silly can we make this?"

Notice how the young students use the language structure of the Shared Reading text and their background knowledge of the vocabulary in context to help them expand their own oral language patterns.

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A preschool teacher and her students brainstorm alternate words and insert them into a poem to make it as "silly" as possible.

Questions to Consider

How does the teacher set developmentally appropriate expectations for oral language and model these for students in different group settings?