Follow Child's Lead

Repeat and expand child's utterances

Dialogic Book
Reading Provide Praise and Encouragement

Dialogic or Shared book reading is

Review Title of the Book
reading practice, where adults use

familiar books to encourage turn-

taking, vocabulary and literacy skills, Ask Open-ended Questions starting with

of a young child. "what" & "where"

Follow child's lead when answering questions

Both include:

Time delay (wating for child's response),

Following child's lead, and

Repeating and expanding child's utternaces

Enhanced Milieu Responsive Interactions

Teaching Strategies The caregiver with observe the

childs interest and start doing

Naturalistic language interventions what the child is doing and

Time delay adding turns in matching what

that uses child interests as
5-10 second wait time turn the child is taking
opportunities to model and prompt
after the child is
language in daily routines. Enhanced
offered a toy or is
Milieu Teaching strategies that
asked a question, to Modeling & Expanding
include: Environmental
give the child time to Provide verbal examples
Arrangement, Responsive
process their thoughts. and label child's play and
Interactions, Modeling, Mand-
toys, after the child attempt
modeling, Incidental Teaching,
the model provide the
Time-Delay
corrected version