## North Carolina Early Learning and Development Progressions: Birth to Five

#### Domain: NC Foundations for Early Learning: Language Development and Communication (LDC)

#### Subdomain: Learning to Communicate

#### Goal: Children speak audibly and express thoughts, and feelings, and ideas clearly.

#### Skill Progression: Language production

#### Age: 24-27 Months

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### Uses negative sentences for nonexistence (no cookie), rejection (no nite-nite) and denial (no break)

Situations for Observation of Skill

Observe the child during play and daily routines.

Elicitation Strategy

No elicitation needed.

Behavior Observed

The child uses negatives in sentences.

Routines-based Intervention (Embedded Instruction)

Early childhood educators and parents can comment and ask simple questions to encourage short conversations about a topic. Reading books using dialogic strategies (i.e., joint ‘reading’ with comments and questions about the pictures and story) is helpful for learning to talk about a topic.

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2015

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