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Associations are foundational skills in language development and are crucial for:

  • conversational skills
  • vocabulary expansion
  • listening comprehension
  • reading comprehension

Language development blossoms when a learner begins forming associations between related words, concepts, and experiences. Linking new information to existing knowledge enhances learners’ memory, recall, and conversation skills.

This program offers ways in which a learner can build fluency in making connections between pictures, words, and experiences. This program also utilizes multiple learning channels to accommodate diverse learning styles and needs.

Such activities include the hear/say learning channel where the teacher says two words in succession, then the learner describes why those two words are associated. For example, the teacher says “chicken, egg.” The learner says, “chicken reminds me of egg because chickens lay eggs.”

This Teacher’s Manual comes with practice sheets.

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Description

Practicing the skills in this Associations unit will enhance language development by strengthening the learner’s ability to connect words, concepts, and experiences. This helps expand vocabulary, improves memory recall, and promotes deeper comprehension. Associative thinking supports the development of semantic networks, enabling students to understand relationships between ideas. It also boosts creativity and problem-solving by encouraging flexible thinking, as learners begin to see multiple meanings or connections. Overall, using associations fosters more fluent expression and improves the learner’s ability to make sense of new information in meaningful ways.

This Associations Unit is structured curriculum designed to develop fluency in making associations, while fostering language skills across varying levels of proficiency. It is comprised of five sections:

  1. Information: This section provides an introduction to the program’s materials, tips for effective use, and contact information for seeking additional support and/or resources for precision teaching.
  2. Placement Section: Learners begin here to aid the teacher in determining which worksheets within the program are appropriate for the learners’ skill level.
  3. Skill Area 1: Picture Associations: Targeting emergent readers, this section focuses on building vocabulary through worksheets which feature pictures of common objects and ideas.
  4. Skill Area 2: Intermediate Associations: Learners practice the creation of associations between spoken and printed words.
  5. Skill Area 3: Advanced Associations: This final section emphasizes conversational fluency by guiding learners to respond dynamically to evolving themes in a natural, conversation-like format.

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