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What are Blank Levels? Your child is learning vocabulary to describe their environment in the ‘here and now’ (Blank Level 1 – Naming). Below are examples of questions at this level. Try to match your questions to what your child is doing.  

What are Blank Levels? Below are some examples of Blank Levels 1-4 questions to ask during play at home and continuous provision in school. Try to match your questions to what your child is doing.    

What are Blank Levels? Below are examples of questions at Blank Levels 1-4 for specific subjects. Try to match your questions to the learning task or activity. Literacy / English Literature Level 1 Name items, real or pictures, for example, ‘What’s this?’ Find named items, for example, ‘Show...

What are Blank Levels? Your child is learning to apply naming and describing vocabulary to things in their environment and to answer simple wh- questions, such as who, what, where, why and when. Below are examples of questions at this level. Try to match your questions to what your child is doing....

What are Blank Levels? Your child is learning to recall events, scenarios and sequences, and to do simple predictions. Below are examples of questions at this level. Try to match your questions to what your child is doing.  

What are Blank Levels? Your child is learning to problem solve and answer ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions. Below are examples of questions at this level. Try to match your questions to what your child is doing.  

What are Blank Levels? Your child needs support to develop the ability to re-tell an event or narrative. They need to develop the ability to identify what a character or person is thinking and feeling and use their understanding of what has happened to predict what will happen. They need to be able...

What are Blank Levels? Your child is developing their understanding at Blank Level 2 which means that they are learning to apply vocabulary and language to things in their environment (naming and describing). They need to develop the ability to select what to attend to, for example, which element of...

What are Blank Levels? Your child is developing their understanding at Blank Level 1 which means that they are learning to apply vocabulary and language to things in their environment (naming). Your child is not yet able to describe, talk about events or stories and problem solve, for example,...

Blank Levels 1-4 The ‘Blank Levels of Questioning’, sometimes known as the ‘Language of Learning’ model, was developed by Blank, Rose and Berlin in 1978. Its main aim is to develop children’s verbal reasoning and abstract language capabilities. There are 4 levels of...