## 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 understand communications from others.

#### Skill Progression: Understand communication from others

#### Age: 24-27 Months

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### Understands vocabulary related to familiar items, people, and routines

Situations for Observation of Skill

Observe the child during doll play with an adult.

Elicitation Strategy

Ask the child, “Do you want the big doll or the little doll?” Let the child take the desired doll. Then find the big and little hats, pants, shoes, etc. for each.

Behavior Observed

The child retrieves the item requested.

Routines-based Intervention (Embedded Instruction)

Encourage parents to use descriptive words with their child, including size and color words (though the concept of color as a characteristic is just emerging).

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2015

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