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  2. Learning through play - Wikipedia

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    Learning through play is a term used in education and psychology to describe how a child can learn to make sense of the world around them. Through play children can develop social and cognitive skills, mature emotionally, and gain the self-confidence required to engage in new experiences and environments. [1]

  3. Syntactic bootstrapping - Wikipedia

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    At the end of the tape, they would hear a sentence describing the scene but the sentence's verb was replaced with a novel word. Children were asked to respond with what they thought the word meant. Their responses were categorized 4 ways: Action, Belief, Desire, and Other. They found that action words were easily interpreted by children.

  4. Vocabulary development - Wikipedia

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    Three-word and four-word combinations appear when most of the child's utterances are two-word productions. In addition, children are able to form conjoined sentences, using and . [ 5 ] This suggests that there is a vocabulary spurt between the time that the child's first word appears, and when the child is able to form more than two words, and ...

  5. Kindergarten readiness - Wikipedia

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    Children are able to build upon their previously mastered oral skills or vocabulary to help them learn new skills, such as reading or writing. Oral language can be taught explicitly and implicitly through play. For example, dramatic play can allow for the child to take on different roles and use language as a tool in different contexts (Hill ...

  6. Children's use of information - Wikipedia

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    Children accurately "know when they know", but often overestimate when they don't know. [44] [45] Children's behaviour does not seem to match their verbal ability to acknowledge their "lack of knowledge". Despite incorrectly stating that they "know" something, children are still capable of changing their response upon hearing contradicting ...

  7. Social Media Reacts To Trump's Word Salad About ... - AOL

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    But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that — because, look, child care is child care. It’s, couldn’t, you know, there’s something, you have to have ...

  8. Fast mapping - Wikipedia

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    In cognitive psychology, fast mapping is the term used for the hypothesized mental process whereby a new concept is learned (or a new hypothesis formed) based only on minimal exposure to a given unit of information (e.g., one exposure to a word in an informative context where its referent is present).

  9. 'Vulva' versus 'vagina': What should we be teaching kids? - AOL

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    Generally speaking, Rubin says her best advice is to “use real words and real body parts, the same way you would for the different parts of the face.” Don’t forget to talk about consent and ...