by cpaige | Jun 26, 2019 | Core Language Skills, Vocabulary
If you’ve been keeping up with the blog over the last few weeks, you’ll know that I’ve been writing about the language processing hierarchy. If you’ve forgotten, the language processing hierarchy looks something like this: and is directly...
by cpaige | Jun 19, 2019 | Literature, Writing, & More, Picture Books
I found The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear a year or so ago when meandering through the bookshelves of my local thrift store. I remember that day being a particularly good book haul day, as I also found numerous classics by some of my...
by cpaige | Jun 18, 2019 | Literature, Writing, & More, Picture Books
“Picture books are two to three times as likely as parent-child conversations to include a word that isn’t among the 5,000 most common English words.” This is what Dominic Massaro, of the University of California, Santa Cruz found when studying...
by cpaige | Jun 12, 2019 | Core Language Skills, Vocabulary
I recently wrote about the first couple steps in the language processing hierarchy, labeling or naming objects and ideas and functions. If you’ve forgotten, the language processing hierarchy looks something like this: and is directly related to our Common Core...
