CLASS Description
Quality of Feedback
Scaffolding– The teacher guides this activity and reminds students of rules and instructions when necessary. She also provides assistance in reading the words on the cards.
Encouragement and Affirmation– The teacher affirms and positively recognizes children’s work throughout the interaction.
Concept Development
Integration– This activity incorporates prior knowledge of reading and letter recognition.
Language Modeling
Frequent Conversation– The teacher engages in many back and forth exchanges with the children.
Self- and Parallel Talk– The teacher describes the children’s actions while playing the game. She also thinks out loud to show the children how she was playing the game.
Age: 4K
Play Type: Co-Opted Play
Content: Literacy, Math, SEL
Context: Center
District: Glover
Teacher: Ms. R
Video Descripton
Using Co-opted Play, 4K teacher Ms. R directs and models a memory card game when she plays with two children. She reinforces the rules during the play and supports the children’s learning alphabet letters and words through sounding out the letter and the word on cards and finding pairs of matching cards.