The Full Participation of Each Preschool Child

Activity 6: Supporting Ramon’s Full Participation

Directions:

Read the information below, then complete the chart on page 2 to show how you would support Ramon if he were a child in your preschool classroom.

Ramon

Ramon is four years old and lives with his mom, dad, younger sister Maria, and his abuela (grandmother).

Ramon is the child most likely to come in from the playground with some living creature. At home he takes care of the family pets, and in the classroom he frequently selects real, plastic, and stuffed animals to play with, especially dinosaurs.

Ramon is a sequential dual language learner. He speaks Spanish at home and has a 25 word site vocabulary.

In his preschool classroom, Ramon is very quiet but watches intently to see what to do. He is picking up new labels in English every day.

The next two images show, based on New Mexico’s Early Learning Guidelines, what we might expect a four-year-old to know and be able to do in key areas of expressive and receptive language.

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Provide examples of how you would support Ramon’s full participation in each of the categories listed below. Please provide at least two examples for each category.

How would you support. . . Evidence-based Practices and StrategiesRamon’s chronological development, and specifically his language and social-emotional growth?

Ramon’s continued growth and development in his home language?

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Ramon as an individual learner with preferences and interests?

Engage and collaborate with Ramon’s family to support his learning and development?

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