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After reading the chapter, test your understanding. Are you able to discuss:- What language allows children to do.
- How language must be learned in context.
- Some issues surrounding bilingual education.
- How some children risk losing their home language when they come to an English-only early childhood program.
- How adults facilitate language development.
- What role pretending plays in language development.
- Why a young child might say "he goed."
- What role arguing plays in language development.
- How an emergent-literacy approach differs from a reading-readiness approach.
- How an emergent-literacy approach is applied in infant-toddler programs.
- How teachers and providers facilitate emergent literacy in programs for preschoolers and kindergartners.
- How teachers and providers facilitate emergent literacy in programs for school-age children.
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