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

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

• model with children various strategies for accessing knowledge (e.g., asking, listening, observing, looking things up in books/internet, etc.)

• engage children in representing what they are learning  (e.g., conversing, role-playing, using manipulatives, drawing, writing, etc.)

• model with children various strategies for accessing knowledge (e.g., asking, listening, observing, researching in books, magazines, newspapers, internet, etc.)

• engage children in representing what they are learning  (e.g., conversing, reporting, note-taking, writing, drawing, presenting)