Attending and Understanding

Goal P-LC 1. Child attends to communication and language from others.

• Uses verbal and non-verbal signals appropriately to acknowledge the comments or questions of others.

• Shows ongoing connection to a conversation, group discussion, or presentation.

Goal P-LC 2. Child understands and responds to increasingly complex communication and language from others.

• Shows an ability to recall (in order) multiple step directions.

• Demonstrates understanding of a variety of question types, such as "Yes/No?" or "Who/What/When/Where?" or "How/ Why?"

• Shows understanding of a variety of sentence types, such as multi-clause, cause-effect, sequential order, or if-then.

• Shows an understanding of talk related to the past or future.

• Shows understanding, such as nodding or gestures, in response to the content of books read aloud, stories that are told, or lengthy explanations given on a topic. Children who are DLLs may demonstrate more complex communication and language in their home language than in English.