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• Fetuses are sensitive to the rhythmic properties of language
• This begins usually a month before they are born
• They are not able to hear specific words as it sounds muffled

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What can your unborn baby hear and feel in the womb?

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• Talk constantly so the fetus can pick up the rhythmic properties
• Hearing the parents helps ease stress the fetus calm down if anxious

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• Main form of communication is crying
• Startled by loud/surprising noises
• Turns head to the direction of recognizable voices
• Makes eye contact for fairly long periods

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2 Month Old Baby's CUTE Conversation With Her Daddy

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• Use "parentese" intentionally to stimulate and extend infant's attention span
• Describe actions and objects that are encountered in the daily routine
• Read to infant selecting books with brightly colored, simple illustrations

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• Cooing sounds begin to grab parent's attention
• Watches face when someone talks
• Begins to experiment with their voice/sounds
• Senses different emotions in parent's voice and may respond differently

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4month(18weeks) old baby cooing and babbling

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• Introduce songs and music at different times throughout the day and sing simple songs
• Talk frequently at close proximity to the infant's face. At about 3 to 4 months of age the child will begin to babble back. Engage in these two-way conversations.
• Modulate voice and vary intonation to match levels of enthusiasm, emotion, meaning

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• Holophrastic words begin to be used
• Takes 'turns' in conversations (using babbling)
• Understands frequently used words such as 'all gone', 'no' and 'bye-bye'
• Locates source of voices with accuracy

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9 months old baby talking and laughing..cute

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• Use words to describe your feeling(s): Mom is so happy!
• Talk face-to-face at a distance where child can clearly see the adult's mouth and facial expressions as he or she speaks
• Use a second language naturalistically if parent is bilingual

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Baby's First Food Reaction at 6months old

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• Begins saying two to three word sentences (telegraphic speech)
• Relates new words to preexisting internalized concepts, then remember and use them after one exposure (fast mapping)
• Capable of understanding simple instructions

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• Hold child and read plastic, board, or cloth books on a daily basis to share new words and/or to repeat reading familiar books that the child enjoys
• Continue to talk frequently all day long, describing actions and objects that are encountered in daily routines
• When reading to child, ask child to find objects, for example "Can you point to the bird?"

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• Is aware of the social value of speech
• Vocabulary will grow from 5-300 words, initially nouns
• Creates short sentences
• Recognizes and points to objects and pictures in books if asked

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• When reading to child, ask child to find objects, for example "Can you point to the bird?"
• Expand child's 2- to 3-words sentences, for example if they can says, "Mine toy!" Expand the sentence, "Is that your toy, Paige? It is a round blue ball. See it bounces."
• When child points to an object be sure to label the object. Ask them to say the name of the object also

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One and a half year old asian baby pointing animals posted on wall.

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• Can use pronouns such as I, me, you, my, and mine
• About 90% of what child says can be understood
• Holds a conversation but jumps from topic to topic often
• Should be able to give their gender, name, age

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• Ask the child to describe the attributes of objects. Reinforce his or her descriptions and add to the descriptions. Ask the child to tell you how objects are the same or different.
• Deliberately point out and lable simmple attributes of objects (smooth, rough, hot, big, square, round, blue, red, striped, wet, etc.)
• Read rhyming stories, songs, or finger plays with rhyming words with the child frequently

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• Uses well formed sentences but there may still be some grammatical errors
• Knows common opposites: big-little, hard-soft, heavy-light, and the like
• Should be able to define common objects in terms of use (hat, shoe, chair)

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• Engage in conversations during storybook reading. Ask your child to predict what will happen next, talk about their favorite character, and the villain. Talk about new or unusual words
• Read informational texts to your child. Describe new vocabulary
• Name items in a category and see if your child can identify the category label

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Reading Informational Text with Your Child

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• Can recall a story or favorite video
• Can describe pastimes, meals, books, friends
•  Should use fairly long sentences and some compound and some complex sentences
• Speech on the whole should be grammatically correct

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• Set up a space and props for dramatic play; include the following: play telephones, puppets, flannel board stories, dolls and other dramatic play props, costumes, and literacy materials and props
• Have your children cook with you, have them use adjectives to describe the color, texture, and feeling as they make and eat food
• Viewing appropriate science shows with your children, taking them to the farm and the zoo gives them opportunities to build new nouns and adjectives. New experiences give children a lot to talk about

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Dramatic Play With Misty | arbetterbeginnings.com