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B. Zurer Pearson
Brooklyn NY
February 19, 2009
Yeled v YaldaEarly Childhood Centers
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What Parents Need to Know about Being and Becoming
Bilingual
(And What Their Childcare Center Needs to Help Them Know)
Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Contact Information
Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D.
www.zurer.com/pearson
c/o UMass Amherst Linguistics & Communication Disorders
http://www.zurer.com/pearson/bilingualchild
Glad to be here with you…
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Bilingualism Study Group /
University of Miami
• Infant Study 25 babies 3 months to 3 years,
• Language & Literacy (LLBC) 960 children 5-11
D. K. Oller Sylvia Fernandez
Vivian Umbel Maria Fernandez
Ana Navarro Alan Cobo-Lewis
Rebecca Eilers Virginia Gathercole
Rebecca Burns* Barbara Zurer Pearson
NICHD 5R01 HD30762 to D.K. Oller & R. E. Eilers
NIDCD Bilingualism Supplement to Longitudinal Infant Vocalizations Project
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Outline of today’s session
1. Highlight dual language research w/ implications for centers
2. Suggest strategies for centers and programs to support bilingual children and their families
3. Present some thoughts about increasing children’s “output” in a minority language
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Mixed Audience
• Not “one-size-fits-all” (aka “fits-none”)
• Rather, smorgasbord—(I hope)
to have something for everyone.
• Please stop me to ask questions (which I may leave to the end, but ask them when they occur—or write on your card).
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Need to know: It’s an asset for
their child to speak 2 languages
Head Start (now) recommends Dual Language
• Promotes positive outcomes for children
• Strengthens program planning & professional development
• Enhances family involvement
• Garners greater community resources
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Don’t need to convince Yeled
v’Yalda (YVY) of advantages of
bilingual care
Strong sense of IDENTITY and
GROWTH through languages
(preaching to the choir)
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But there is an element of
“risk” associated w/ bilingual
• In popular imagination—”too
hard for a child”; “takes away
from English”
• Even in our Miami Study (LLBC),
bilingualism itself not a risk, but
may compound risk for those
already identified as at-risk.
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Research shows
positive outcomes for children
• Children growing up in two or
more languages is the normaround the world.
• The human brain is designed to
support multiple languages
• The more languages you know,
the easier it is to learn another.
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Positive
Social Outcomes for Children
With home language support:
• Children’s learning is continuous
• Children’s self-esteem is
enhanced
• Parents get more recognition as
child’s first teacher
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Positive Cognitive Outcomes:
Bilingual children have better
– selective attention
– metalinguistic awareness
– mental flexibility
– continuity between home & school
– understanding & tolerance for others
– access to a wider world
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NOT more associated with SLI(Specific Language Impairment)
• Might be convenient if BL
caused SLI, would have an easy
cure. But it doesn’t.
• And dropping one language
might cut child off from sources
of aid (and comfort)– Reference: Genesee, Paradis & Crago, 2004
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Why might people think the 2nd
language causes delay
• Difficulty of accurate assessment
• Reports of “bilingual deficit” are likely not children with support for both languages
• Subtractive environment does lead to risk (Lambert & Taylor,1996 cf. Skutnab-Kangas)
• [Other possibilities: suppression, (Oller/ Hoffman)]
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Developmental benefits
• In additive environments
• From Interdependence
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One child, two languages
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• No disadvantage from mL in
home or school
– (Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children, LLBC)
– Hakuta & D’Andrea
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w/ Nested factorial (Core Design-LLBC, Oller & Eilers, 2002)
Monolinguals Bilinguals
SES: Hi Lo
Home Lang: English & Spanish Only Spanish
School:1-way 2-way 1-way 2-way
SES
Hi Lo Hi Lo Hi Lo Hi Lo
(Replicated at Kindergarten, 2nd and 5th Grades)
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Measures—in English & Spanish
• 9 Standardized (sub)Tests– Woodcock Johnson & Woodcock
Munoz
– PPVT/ TVIP
• 3 Probe studies– Narrative,Grammatical judgments,
Phonological translation
• Interdependence/ no loss to English
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Individual Differences:Factor Analysis of Bilinguals’
English & Spanish Data
.72.74PPVT
.78.74Oral Vocab
.61.38.69Analogies
.78–.00–.05.80Picture Vocab
.40.48.70.61Dictation
.34.32.66.70Proofing
.28.37.61.64Rdg Comp
.25.35.82.79Letter–Word
–.01.71.82Word Attack
Factor 3Factor 2Factor 1
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At 5th grade, difference scores for
the home language groups
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
SS points gained
English
Advantage
from
Eng&Sp at
Home
Spanish
Advantage
from Only
Spanish at
Home
Effect of Home Language(s) on Standardized Scores
Overall
English OnlySchool
2-Way School
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w/ Nested factorial (Core Design-LLBC, Oller & Eilers, 2002)
Monolinguals Bilinguals
SES: Hi Lo
Home Lang: English & Spanish Only Spanish
School:1-way 2-way 1-way 2-way
SES
Hi Lo Hi Lo Hi Lo Hi Lo
(Replicated at Kindergarten, 2nd and 5th Grades)
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At 5th grade, difference scores
for school lang groups
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
SS points gained
English
Advantage
from Eng
Only
School
Spanish
Advantage
from Two-
Way
School
Effect of School Language(s) on Standardized Scores
Overall
Eng&Sp at Home
Only Span atHome
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7
8
9
10
11
1 2 3 4 5 6
"Depth"
English and Spanish Proficiency by Time in U.S.
Eng
Span
1st principle: Learning 2nd language
doesn’t require loss of 1st.
Hakuta & D’Andrea, 1992
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Demonstration of
subtractive LL
7
8
9
10
11
1 2 3 4 5 6
"Depth"
English and Spanish Proficiency by Time in U.S.
Eng
Span
From Hakuta & D’Andrea, 1992
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Demonstration of additive
BL
7
8
9
10
11
1 2 3 4 5 6
"Depth"
English and Spanish Proficiency by Time in U.S.
Eng
Span
From Hakuta & D’Andrea, 1992
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Not a good time to switch
horses
L1 L2
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Commitment to Dual Language
Programs
II. Program Planning & Professional Development
Can you convince your staff, parents, and community of the positive outcomes for children?
(And how do you do it?)
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Importance of keeping both
languages going
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Bilingual Mode
(Bilingual people all use both languages in
same settings)
Very common, but Fishman (1991, 2001)
recommends distinct domains
If two languages compete, one will win.
Carve out time and space for mL.
• (Plus, psycholinguistically, there is a “cost” to switching, especially at the beginning. Meuter, 2005)
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vs Monolingual Mode
• RBC: Separating the languages (“Monolingual Mode” in 2 Lgs)
– By Person (One Parent One Lang)
– By Place (mL@home)
– By Time (summer vs school year)
(What percentage of children in bilingual households typically become bilingual?)
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Most 2-way (dual language)
schools use separation
• By Person & Place & Time
• Key Principle: New content in
each language! (Translate only
as a last resort)
• YVY—has mixed and separate
models, right?
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Tubes--Bilingual comfort levelhttp://www.highscope.org/Content.asp?ContentId=381
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• Not following my “rule” but doing something FABULOUS
• Making the 2 languages fluid and natural; meeting each child, concentrating on their needs, not their language.
• Note little girl who exclaims, “ooh chiquitas” then “I want this one.”
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No single answer
• Work with what you have to
provide:
• Continuity of care
• Caregivers speaking their best
language• Reinforcing (or introducing) the language of the
community
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Publications Available
• Barbara’s website:
www.zurer.com/pearson/bilingualchild
• Pearson, B. Z. Raising a BL Child
• Patton Tabors, One Child, Two
Languages
• WestEd article, in Concepts of Care,*
(also en español)
• OHS Dual Language Report
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1. Child & Caregivers Speak the Same
Language
Child’s Language =
Caregiver’s = Language ≠
Community
Language
Use the child’s and
caregivers’ common
language
� Continuity between home and childcare setting
� Caregivers speaking their best language
� Need to arrange activities with others for “lingua franca”
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2. Child and Caregivers have
different L1
Child’s Language ≠
Caregiver’s
Language =
Community
= Language
Use the caregivers’ &
community language
� Caregivers speaking their own language
�Child has experience with community language
� Need to bring in other adults (volunteers?) to provide some language support for child’s L1.
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3. Caregivers speak community language as a second language
Child’s Language ≠
Caregiver’s
Language L1
≠
Community
Language
Use the
community
language
�Child has experience with community language
�How juggle to provide the other two?
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4. Mixed Languages
Child’s Language =
Some Caregiver’s
Language (L1) ≠
Use the child’s language
sometimes
Some Caregiver’s Language (L1) =
Community
Language
Use the community language
sometimes
�Continuity between home and childcare setting�Caregivers speaking their own language
�Child has experience with community language
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Ideal program plan for mixed
groups
�Every child has support in home language.
How much is enough?
Speech & language intervention model: minimum 30 min, 3 x week
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Ideal program plan for mixed
groups will need
Bilingual staff
Language volunteers
parents
community
Media-
(books, audio, video, labels)
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The role of media in
language development
• “Motive and opportunity”
• Interaction provides opportunity
• Media contribute to motivation
(at this age)
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What is our “bilingual” goal?
• Our “bilingual babies” didn’t
speak two languages, not even
one!
• So, what is “bilingual”?
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Basic terms
• Simultaneous
• Sequential
• L1/ L2
• Dominant language
• Balanced bilingual
• Interdependent/ independent
• Passive bilingual
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Bilingual First Language
Acquisition
From Raising a Bilingual Child, Pearson, 2008
Two languages
from birth.
Balanced (often)
Independent
of each other? (maybe)
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Even 2 languages learned at
birth can be unequal.
Depends on type and amount of exposure.
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SLA : Start to learn one first;
then add the second
early late(r)
How independent? How balanced?
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An L2 can overtake an L1.
And often does.
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How common is “balance”?
• Miami Infant Study (1/25)
• Doublet studies – Infants about 30%,
– K 50%,
– 1st 60+%
– College � 90%
• Most BLs’ vocabulary is “distributed” (in both languages)
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Expect Imbalance, but
• Give Minority Language Every Advantage
• If you have one vocabulary about a topic in one language only, you’ll use that language—eg. school.
• If you want to talk about it in the mL, need to specifically boost that vocabulary.
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III. What does it mean to “teach”
preschoolers language?
• What do you want?
• How do you get it?
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WHAT KIND of LANGUAGE ARE
YOU LOOKING FOR?
• Specific
• Complex
• Less about here and now
• More about there and then
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SPECIFIC
HERE AND NOW:
THE TRUCK WITH THE BIG TIRES
--> PICK UP THE TRUCK
--> PICK UP THE BLUE TRUCK
THE TRUCK YOU PLAYED WITH YESTERDAY
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COMPLEX
(I WANT IT --> I WANNA GO
I WANT YOU TO GO.
(MORE THAN ONE SENTENCE --OR VERB-- AT A TIME)
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COMPLEX (2)
--> HE SAID HE WAS GOING.
SHE SAID, “I’M A PRINCESS.” --> SHE SAID SHE WAS A PRINCESS.
(MORE THAN ONE SENTENCE --OR VERB-- AT A TIME)
HE SAID, “BOO.”
HE SAID, “I’M GOING”
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COMPLEX (3)
WHO FOUND THE CHEESE? JOHN
WHO FOUND THE BREAD? MARY
WHO FOUND WHAT?
(MORE THAN ONE FUNCTION AT A TIME)
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WHO FOUND WHAT?
JOHN -- CHEESE
MARY -- BREAD
SOME 4’S AND MANY 5’S CAN DO THIS.
MARY, JOHN, CHEESE, BREAD
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COMPLEX - 4
TALK ABOUT WHAT OTHERS ARE THINKING
TAKING THE PERSPECTIVE OF ANOTHER
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“THEORY OF MIND” (OF
OTHER MINDS)
(SHOW THE CAKE MOVING FROM OLD DSLT)
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QUESTIONS
AND THEN STICK AROUND AND LISTEN TO THE ANSWERS.
PRAISE.
GET RID OF YOUR CRITICISM. (It doesn’t buy you anything.)
MODEL STORY-TELLING
ESTABLISH A ROUTINE OF STORIES.
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NOW THERE IS NO LIMIT
TO WHAT THEY CAN SAY
TALK ABOUT THE PAST
TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE
TALK ABOUT MAKE BELIEVE
TALK ABOUT WHAT MIGHT BE
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How do you get more language
from preschoolers?
No DRILLS!
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What does every child need for
language development?
• Responsiveness
• Warm, positive interactions
• One on one attention and conversation
• Listening
• Integration with the group
• Respect for background
• (Praise doesn’t hurt.)
Some are better in L1, Others can be done in L2.
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Main Take-home message for
Language Strategies
• Listen• Build from the child
• (Respond responsively)
• Expand the child’s utterance
• Recast, don’t correct
• Repetition, repetition, repetition
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Best PracticesMeaningful Language Interaction
� Language is the Key: Talking and Playing & Talking and Books
–Follow the CAR
Follow the child’s lead
Comment and wait
Ask questions and wait
Respond by adding a little more and wait
� El Idioma Es la Clave: Conversación y Juego Y Conversación y Libros
– Siguiendo el CARRO
1. Seguir la guía del niño
2. Comentar y esperar
3. Averigüar (hacer preguntas) y esperar
4. Responder, aumentando un poco más
5. Repitir Otra vez en español (the home language)
Contact Lora Heulitt at
the National Head Start
Family Literacy Center
for more information.
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How get talk??
• WHAT IS EASIEST WAY TO GET CHILDREN NOT TO TALK?
(NOT TELLING THEM NOT TO--THAT USUALLY DOESN’T WORK)
RESPONDING NEGATIVELY• CORRECTING THEM
• DISAGREEING
• MAKING FUN
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How pull it out?
RECAST AND EXPAND AND TURN IT AROUND (easiest--there are other ways)
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SO, YOU WANT
COMPLEX, SPECIFIC TALK ABOUT DISTANT
THINGS
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DOES IT MATTER WHAT
LANGUAGE the child
says specific, complex things IN?
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IT SHOULD BE IN THE LANGUAGE THE CHILD CAN BE THE MOST COMPLEX and SPECIFIC IN--AT LEAST PART OF THE DAY.
REMEMBER: FIRST LANGUAGE LEARNERS HAVE A LOT TO LEARN BETWEEN 3 AND 5.
CHILDREN SHOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO OPERATE IN THE LANGUAGE SHE OR HE CAN UNDERSTAND THE MOST COMPLEX THINGS IN--AT LEAST PART OF THE DAY.
Add the blocks here
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Talking with children:
the big picture
• Children need adult language modeling
• Children need lots of opportunities to practice talking
Requires a balance
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Teacher-Child Proportion of Talk
(words/minute)
0
20
40
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T1 T2 T3 T4
Average W
ords
TeacherWords
ChildWords
Burns, 1992
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T1T2
T3T4
TeacherWords
ChildWords0
150
300
450
600
750
900
Av. Words per Hour
Child-Teacher Proportion of Talk(adult words x 10)
TeacherWords
ChildWords
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Clearest message?
• Teachers 1 & 2: TALK LESS
• Teacher 4: TALK MORE
• Teacher 3: Tell us your secret!
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The Secret: Children’s
Personal Stories
• Children told more personal
stories with Teacher #3
• With all teachers children used
their most complex language
when telling personal stories
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Another language secret:
stop quizzing
Children did the least amount of talking with teachers who did the most amount of quizzing.
Quizzing is not warm, nurturing communication.
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Staff development ideas
• Research tells
• us that our ability to follow
children’s different
conversational threads has the
greatest impact on child
language development.
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Planning Support: Handout
• Taking a Language Inventory
– Example Center’s Language Inventory
• Staffing for Language Development
– Example Center’s Staffing Plan
• Staff Development for Language Development
– Kinds of talk
– Training Activities
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Building Language Awareness
• “How much do I talk with my co-teacher during the day?”
• Does most of my talk involve the children (a characteristic of quality care settings)
• “How much do I talk during activities?”•• “How long can I keep a conversation going with a single
child?”
• In group care, we are always attuned to all the members of our group. Without training and coaching, we are likely to cut short many critical opportunities for one-on-one conversations with individual children.
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Identify which languages you
are using
• For which purposes
– Which language am I using?
– Which language(s) do the children need?
• Recommend a combination of self-assessment through record-review as well as feedback notes from an outside observer.
• Identify the kinds of talk they are using during different activities.
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Recognizing kinds of talk
• Personal stories
• Expository talk (like a book)
– (Quizzing)
• Task accompaniment (self-talk)
• Management
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Language awareness is the
key:
• Don’t let opportunities to respond
slip away
• And create other opportunities to
respond
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How do you build these into
your program—every day?
• Greeting time
• Free play
• Circle time (with routines to put
the child up front)
• Small group—tubes/ pumpkins
• MEALS and SNACKS
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A young friend from RCMA in Immokalee FL…Photographer T. Hoffman
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