Level 0: Parrot Talk

Talking

Level 0 Activities help a child develop an “ear” for the spoken language as one vocalizes a variety of sounds. Surrounded with oral talk, while actively engaged in a wide variety of activities, sets the very early foundational building block for reading & writing.

Early Literacy Foundational Skills

• Oral Communication

  • listen and understand that verbal interactions is one method of communicating thoughts, ideas, whats, needs, etc.

• Sentence Meaning

  • listen and understand meaning of a sentence

• Word Meaning

  • listen and understand meaning of a specific word

Parrot Talk

GOAL: Daily face-to-face interactions through a wide variety of activities are the KEY.

MATERIALS:

• none (this is founded on actual activities being done in real time)

PARROT TALK

Parrot Talking is the imitating or repeating what a young child verbalizes. Here the adult will imitate or repeat the sounds the young child is making. Actions may be incorporated into this activity as well, adding meaning to the sounds or words.

EXAMPLE:

Young Child - “Mama”

Adult - “Mama” imitating with proper pronunciation. An action would be to point to the person who is known as “mama” to build word association.

HELPFUL TIPS:

• Always model first until the child is comfortable with this activity.