Video Transcript
Narrator: In the Language Development domain, the strand Early Literacy includes the foundation Engagement With Books, Stories, Songs, and Rhymes. Children from 23 through 36 months engage with storytelling, books, songs, or rhymes by watching or listening, asking short questions, and making comments. They interact with books in basic ways, such as turning pages. They also show an emerging understanding that written text represents words.
Example 1
Text on screen: Engages with books by watching, listening, asking short questions, and making comments
On screen: 35-month-old Kane stands in front of his caregiver, who is holding up a large book about dinosaurs as he reads it aloud. Kane holds a toy dinosaur. He is clearly familiar with the book.
Caregiver 1: Triassic Twist and the Brontosaurus Bump.
On screen: Kane taps the caregiver’s arm to get his attention.
Kane: Mr. Josh, where’s the volcanoes?
Caregiver 1: The volcano’s coming up. I promise you. Give me a pinky.
On screen: The caregiver offers his pinky, and Kane links his index finger around it.
Caregiver 1: I promise the volcano’s coming up the next few pages. You gotta hang around, OK? I know that that’s your favorite, is the—are the volcanoes. OK.
On screen: Kane nods, and the caregiver pats his shoulder. The scene cuts to several pages further into the book. Kane is standing as close as he can to the caregiver and the book, gazing at the pages.
Caregiver 1: There never was a party like the Dinosaur Stomp.
On screen: The caregiver turns the page to reveal illustrations of dinosaurs and many volcanoes.
Caregiver 1: There’s your volcanoes! You see them?
On screen: Kane excitedly points to the page, tracing a finger over volcanoes.
Kane: Yeah! There’s lava.
Caregiver 1: Yeah?
Kane: Lava! That’s lava!
Caregiver 1: You see all the lava.
Example 2
Text on screen: Engages with songs by watching, listening, acting out movements, and singing along
On screen: 33-month-old Kate and 35-month-old Bill sit in a large storage container, listening to their caregiver sing.
Caregiver 2: ) (singing) The mommies on the bus go
All: (shushing sounds)
On screen: Kate and Bill place their index fingers to their lips, smiling at each other.
Caregiver 2: (singing) The mommies on the bus go
All: (singing) Shh, shh, shh. All through the town.
On screen: Kate turns to watch the caregiver start the next verse of the song.
Caregiver 2: (singing) The daddies on the bus say,
All: (singing) “I love you, I love you, I love you.”
On screen: Kate turns back to Bill. They sing to each other, and Kate acts out the lyric by placing her hands over her heart.
Caregiver 2: (singing) The daddies on the bus say,
All: (singing) “I love you.” All through the town.
Example 3
Text on screen: Engages with books by watching, listening, asking questions, and making comments
On screen: 35-month-old Cesar and his mother sit together on a bed, reading a family memory book. Cesar points to a page and leans against his mother.
Cesar: Monroe.
Mother: Monroe.
Cesar: Cesar.
Mother: Monroe and Cesar on Halloween.
On screen: Cesar points to another part of the page.
Cesar: Why’d you put that up?
Mother: That witch?
On screen: Cesar nods.
Mother: Because it was Halloween. We wanted our house to be spooky.
On screen: Cesar points again, and his gaze shifts to different parts of the page as his caregiver continues to talk about the pictures.
Cesar: Where you put that on a spider?
Mother: There is a spider. A spooky spider next to the witch.
Example 4
Text on screen: Engages with songs by singing and acting out movements
On screen: 34-month-old Terrence sits in a chair beside his caregiver in a classroom and sings Old MacDonald Had a Farm. He wears a large felt glove on his hand. His caregiver is holding animal decals. As Terrance picks animals, he sings the appropriate verse of the song.
Terrence: (singing) And on his farm he had a cow, E-I-E-I-O.
On screen: Terrence picks up a cow decal and attaches it to a fingertip of the glove. He waggles his fingers in the glove as he sings.
Terrence: (singing) With a moo moo here, a moo moo here. Here a moo, there a moo. Everywhere a moo moo.
On screen: Terrence lightly taps his feet in rhythm.
Terrence: (singing) Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
On screen: Terrence notices a decal of a farmer sitting on the table. He takes it and places it on the palm of the glove. Then he picks a horse from the caregiver’s hand and places it on another fingertip of the glove.
Terrence: (singing) And on his farm he had a horse, E-I-E-I-O. With a neigh neigh here, a neigh neigh here. Here a neigh, there a neigh, everywhere a neigh neigh.
On screen: Terrence turns his hand so the side with the characters is facing out. Then he then turns it back toward himself.
Terrence: (singing) Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.