Communicating and Speaking

Goal P-LC 3. Child varies the amount of information provided to meet the demands of the situation.

• Usually provides sufficient detail in order to get needs met, such as explaining a point of difficulty in a task or sharing a request from home with the teacher.

• Uses language, spoken or sign, to clarify a word or statement when misunderstood.

• Children who are DLLs may switch between their languages

Goal P-LC 4. Child understands, follows, and uses appropriate social and conversational rules.

• Maintains multi-turn conversations with adults, other children, and within larger groups by responding in increasingly sophisticated ways, such as asking related questions or expressing agreement.

• With increasing independence, matches the tone and volume of expression to the content and social situation, such as by using a whisper to tell a secret.

Goal P-LC 5. Child expresses self in increasingly long, detailed, and sophisticated ways.

• Communicates clearly enough to be understood by adults across a range of situations. Pronunciation errors and grammatical errors are isolated and infrequent. Shows proficiency with prepositions, regular/irregular past tense, possessives, and noun-verb agreement.

• Typically, uses complete sentences of more than five words with complex structures, such as sentences involving sequence and causal relations.

• Can produce and organize multiple sentences on a topic, such as giving directions or telling a story, including information about the past or present or things not physically present, and answer a variety of question types.