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What artist used consumer products such as Campbell’s soup cans as a major element in his art?

Literacy instruction that uses the whole language approach is an example of a bottom-up reading model. 

Infants cannot contribute to conversations until their expressive language includes more than a handful of words. 

Preschool literacy instruction emphasizes playful activities centered around teaching print concepts as the foundation forfuture phonological awareness development.

Language is a social practice that relies on collaboration.

All writing in the 4-year-old classroom should occur in a dedicated writing center.

Research indicates the value of open-ended play on children’s development diminishes in kindergarten. 

Providing explicit instruction on word meanings in kindergarten is developmentally appropriate.

Children are emergent readers and writers once they can read and spell conventionally

Music with repetitive lyrics and rhyming refrains will support children’s early phonological awareness