Language Experience

Class average age (in months)

19-24 months

Primary Objective and Infant/Toddler standards:

Language Development Understand and Communicate, Communicate about favorite items or

toys to others Imitate adult behavior in play.

Secondary Objective and Infant/Toddler standards:

Language Development Understand and Communicate, Answer simple questions

Experience description:

Caregiver will give each toddler an animal and then ask them what is it and what sound is going
to make and what is he doing? If a toddler needs support, the caregiver will model them. For
example, if toddlers does not know what is a dog doing caregiver would answer it’s playing, or
jumping, or eating… . So toddlers can repeat the respond or make their own respond.

Materials

Variety kinds of farm animals that are enough for 4 toddlers. (We can do this activity at block
center.)
Scaffolding (child’s prior knowledge to build on):

Toddlers already know about the name of some animals and their sounds. With this activity, they
can learn about more animals and their sounds and also they will be able to learn more verbs like
eat, jump, run, walk, hop, drink and … with caregiver’s prompts and modeling.

Plan for carrying out experience (what caregiver will do):

I planned this activity for 4 toddlers. Caregiver will ask toddlers to join her to play with animals.
She will show toddlers one animal like cow and ask toddlers what is it? And whether she gets a
respond or not she will say that this is a cow. Then she will ask another question? What is the
sound of the cow? Or what is he saying? Then caregiver will show a movement like running and
will ask toddlers what is the cow doing? And whether they answer or not she is going to answer
the question. For example, the cow is running. Then, caregiver will give each toddler an animal
and ask the same question individually of each toddler. Caregiver will use language modeling to
support toddlers that need more help to answer the questions.

Assessment

A. How would you be able to determine the success of this activity?

If toddlers engage with the activity and play with animals using caregivers prompts such as the
name of the animals and their sounds and their action and movements I would say this will be a
successful activity.

B. Do you feel children's knowledge base will change after this experience? (Do I see this new
knowledge being learned in other areas?

I think toddler’s language knowledge will improve after this activity. They will learn more verbs,
actions, movements and animals’ names and with caregiver’s language modeling they can
improve their language skills such as putting two words together, for example dog eating or
such.