Teaching Chapter 9 Vocabulary

Involves the ability to achieve and maintain a state of balance while performing an activity.

• Windows of opportunity

• Preschoolers

• Postural control

• Metamermory

Children between the ages of three through five.

• Toddler

• Preschoolers

• Cooperative play

• Pragmatics

The ability to move the hands precisely in response to what the eye sees.

• Cooperative play

• Semantics

• Phonology

• Hand-eye coordination

Time frames for optimizing the development of critical skills.

• Semantics

• Preschoolers

• Window of opportunity

• Developmental delay

Thinking about what you remember.

• Metamemory

• Metacognition

• Phonology

Refers to the sounds that make up words.

• Phonology

• Metamemory

• Morphology

• Centration

Includes word structures and formations.

• Intuition

• Conservation

• Morphology

• Semantics

Refers to sentence structure, or when words are combined to form grammatical sentences.

• Syntax

• Phonology

• Intuition

• Semantics

Refers to the meaning of words.

• Semantics

• Syntax

• Centration

• Metamemory

Refers to using language properly.

• Guidance

• Phonology

• Pragmatics

• Postural control