Video Transcript
Narrator: In the Language Development domain, the strand Early Literacy includes the foundation Understanding Meaning from Books and Stories. Children from 11 through 23 months make connections between stories or books and real life. They also show an understanding of parts of stories and books.
Example 1
Text on screen: Points to pages and makes one- and two-word comments
On screen: In a cozy reading area, 19-month-old Yuma and his father look at a book together. Yuma points to the open page.
Father: One train there. One train.
On screen: Yuma turns another page of the book.
Father: You gonna turn the page? What do we have here? Apples. Three apples. And we have some flowers.
On screen: Yuma points to different parts of the open page.
Yuma: Apple.
Father: Apples. We have flowers here. There’s a green apple and a red apple there.
On screen: Yuma turns to the next page. He points at the page again, smiling.
Yuma: That’s the row row.
Father: You see the boat? That’s the row, row. Row your boat. Right?
Example 2
Text on screen: Points to pages in books, makes one- and two-word comments, and shows an understanding of story elements
On screen: In a cozy outdoor reading area, 21-month-old Milani and her caregiver sit on a bench together. They each look at their own books. Milani begins to open her book in her lap.
Caregiver 1: Look at, Milani, you had some fish over here. Los peces.
On screen: Milani looks at the caregiver’s book and points to different areas of the page.
Milani: Mama.
Caregiver 1: Mama, yeah.
Milani: (inaudible)
On screen: The caregiver points to the open page.
Caregiver 1: Who’s this one?
On screen: Milani closes her book and lets it drop to the floor. She looks back at the caregiver’s book.
Milani: Papa.
Caregiver 1: And this one?
Milani: Mama.
Caregiver 1: It’s a mama. And here, what they are doing?
On screen: Milani points to the book again, pauses, then purses her lips, as if giving a kiss.
Milani: Mwah!
Caregiver 1: Mwah, they are hugging and kissing.
On screen: The caregiver turns the book to the next page. Milani begins to point to the page in different areas.
Milani: Duck, duck.
Caregiver 1: It’s ducks, yeah. It’s just, it’s one, two, three ducks.
Milani: Mama.
Caregiver 1: Mama, where’s mama here?
On screen: Milani touches the book in the caregiver’s hands and turns to the next page. She points to something in the book and smiles.
Milani: Mama.
Caregiver 1: Is mama here? What’s going on over here? What’s happened?
On screen: Milani touches the book again, turning back to the previous page and pointing to a spot on the page again.
Milani: Mama right there.
Example 3
Text on screen: Points to pages in books, makes one- and two-word comments, and shows an understanding of story elements.
On screen: 23-month-old Amelia and her caregiver sit together. Amelia holds a cloth book on her lap. The book contains images of animals. The page is open to a frog and a whale.
Amelia: Frog.
On screen: Amelia hops in her chair briefly then returns to looking at the book.
Caregiver 2: Frog. Hop!
Amelia: Fish, ha.
Caregiver 2: Fish.
On screen: The caregiver presses her palms together and moves them like a fish swimming in water, and Amelia copies her.
Caregiver 2: Swim. The fish swim in the water. (singing) Swimming in the water.
On screen: Ameilia then turns to the next page that displays a duck and a crab. Amelia holds her hands up and opens and closes her hands to appear like a duck bill.
Amelia: Duck!
Caregiver 2: Duck.
Amelia: Quack, quack.
Caregiver 2: Quack, quack. Quack, quack.
On screen: The caregiver points to the crab. She brings her hands up and snaps them like crab claws.
And this is– this is a crab, and it snap, snap. Snap, snap. Crab. Mhm.
On screen: Amelia snaps her hands once then returns to looking at the book. She turns the page back to the frog.
Amelia: Yeah.
Caregiver 2: Which one?
On screen: Amelia points to the frog on the page. She squats up slightly and sets the book down. The caregiver makes hopping motions with her hands.
Caregiver 2: Frog. Hop, hop, hop. Hop, hop, hop. You want to hop like the frog?
On screen: Amelia sits back and picks the book up again. She points to another page, mistaking a black owl for a cat.
Amelia: Cat.
Caregiver 2: Oh, the cat.
Amelia: (meowing)
Caregiver 2: Oh, you’re meowing like a cat.