Reflecting on Your Language Use
Reflect on yourself as a language user — how your reading, writing, and speaking shift across audiences, purposes, and contexts, and where you want to develop further
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“Does your child notice how they communicate differently in different situations — writing for school versus texting a friend, or speaking in a debate versus chatting at home — and can they explain why those differences matter?”
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- Activity. Reflect on yourself as a language user — how your reading, writing, and speaking shift across audiences, purposes, and contexts, and where you want to develop further
What to notice. metalinguistic awareness development • register and audience awareness research
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Does your child notice how they communicate differently in different situations — writing for school versus texting a friend, or speaking in a debate versus chatting at home — and can they explain why those differences matter?
Reflect on yourself as a language user — how your reading, writing, and speaking shift across audiences, purposes, and contexts, and where you want to develop further
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- metalinguistic awareness development
- register and audience awareness research
“Does your child notice how they communicate differently in different situations — writing for school versus texting a friend, or speaking in a debate versus chatting at home — and can they explain why those differences matter?”
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- English
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- English Thinking
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- Ages 10–11