Short Form (Video)

General Topic

Determine the general topic of an utterance: Meaning, Literacy, or Behavior.

Form of Utterance

Who is speaking – teacher or child/ren? Use this code to count questions and comments.

Question Wording

This code categorizes questions.

Repeat, Recast, Extend

This teacher code involves elaborating on child utterances by recasting or expanding the topic.

Observed Behaviors

These behaviors are simply marked whether or not they were observed.

Reminders and Redirections

This code captures utterances that address the topic of behavior exclusively, such as attention directors or reminders about rules/expectations.

Book & Print Conventions

This code involves teacher talk about how to use books, book parts or rules and conventions that English print requires.

Letters

This code involves teacher talk about letter names, letter sounds, alphabetical order or letter features.

Words

Involves teacher talk that identifies whole words in print or models writing of words.

Writing

This code involves talk about how to write, invented spelling, and modeled writing.

This code promotes dramatization of the book or other pretend role play.

This code includes asking for or providing a word’s definition or elaborating on word meaning.

This code indicates cognitive processes in the brain.

This code captures feelings/emotions and emotional states.

This code captures references to characters as proper nouns.