Provide frequent opportunities for children to interact directly with the world around them, both inside and outside the home.

Provide frequent opportunities for children to interact indirectly with the world around and beyond them.

Engage children in activities that develop and extend their interests in and understanding of the world.

Model, teach, and have children practice strategies for gaining access to knowledge, and making it their own.

• Provide frequent opportunities for children to interact indirectly with the world around and beyond them

• expand children's knowledge of the world by sharing books on a wide range of topics (e.g., nature, community, people, science, etc.)

• expand children's knowledge of the world through a variety of media (e.g., pictures, illustrations, video, art, music, broadcast, plays)

• In each experience listed above:

--ask and answer questions

--use and explain vocabulary associated with the experience (e.g., detergent, bar codes)

--explain how things work

--make connections to direct and personal experiences

• expand children's knowledge of the world by sharing books on a wide range of topics (e.g., nature, community, people, science, etc.)

• encourage children to read on their own books that enlarge their knowledge of the world (e.g., science, history, geography, biography)

• expand children's knowledge of the world through a variety of media (e.g., pictures, illustrations, video, art, music, broadcast, plays)

• In each experience listed above:

--ask and answer questions

--use and explain vocabulary associated with the experience (e.g., detergent, bar codes)

--explain how things work

--make connections to direct and personal experiences