Milieu Teaching

Question 1

EMT for Preschoolers - Phonological Awareness - 3 Components

Answer 1

Syllable
- Can they break it down/clap

Onset-Rime
- Isolating the beginning sound from the rest of the word

Phoneme

• Identifying, segmenting, and deletion of phonemes
• Building grapheme/phoneme association

Question 2

EMT for Preschoolers - Targeting Phonological Awareness in Preschoolers

Answer 2

• Link between PA foundation and later reading and spelling skills
• Kids with speech and language disorders are at risk
• PA skills > increased word recognition > increased reading comprehension > increased advanced PA
• Important to link PA to reading through metalinguistic tasks as they begin to read

Question 3

EMT for Preschoolers - Integrating PA into Language tx

Answer 3

• Simulataneous with language goals
• Disegnated avtivities within tx
• 1:1 vs. group activities
• Home and classroom tasks

Question 4

EMT for Preschoolers - Using books in intervention

Answer 4

•	Varied potential language targets
•	Varied levels of structure/directions  
            possible 
•	Nature of interaction 
•	Use with CLD families

Question 5

EMT for Preschoolers - Facilitative behaviors

Answer 5

• Commenting on child’s focus
• Questions regarding child’s focus
• Contingent, expanding responses
• Waiting for the child