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A functional Model recognizes that language is part of almost every aspect of our lives (sometimes accompanying an activity and sometimes the focus of an activity). The model explains that language is a system which we use to construct meaning for a whole range of different purposes.

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Which can incorporate a vast range of communications strategies from using gestures to teach the rules of the game to sitting down and listening to the PE teacher explain the rules in a traditional classroom setting.

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In the last few decades, many educational writers have suggested that educational failure is often really a language failure.

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So often in my classroom I have encountered something a student has presented and it seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. In consultation with the student often their true intent is revealed and it never ceases to amaze me.

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Thus adults facilitate children's learning of language in several ways. They activate children's ability to formulate rules about language itself by providing a language-rich environment...by modeling various examples of whole language

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My son has many apps on his iPad which encourage literacy skills. He started out with dragging letters to make words "monster" and then progressed to dragging words to make sentences. He prefers to make sentences because a whole sentence tells a story, "The monster kicked the ball over the roof".