Author Question: What intellectual skills and language skills might children encounter when they dictate their ideas ... (Read 145 times)

bio_gurl · **on:** Sep 15, 2018

What intellectual skills and language skills might children encounter when they dictate their ideas to adults to write down?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

A teacher hangs up three paintings by famous artists. Her first-graders gather around the one with the most colors and ignore the other two. Based on this, she decides that her students:

a. are attracted to colors, like most young children.
b. have very unique preferences for art.
c. don't know much about the arts.
d. need to look at more paintings.

CourtneyCNorton · **Reply #1 on:** Sep 15, 2018

Answer to Question 1

They
think about words to express meaning.
listen closely to adult read-backs and evaluate.
restate their ideas at times.
think about alternative ways to say something.
decide on word usage.
build one idea from another.
decide on the sequence of their dictation.

If it is a story they are dictating, they
think about setting, characters, actions, and dialogue.
think about their intended audience.
perhaps mentally evaluate adding features to entertain.

Other answers are possible.

Answer to Question 2

a