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S4E60: The Building Blocks of Story with Angelina Stanford and Timilyn Downey

The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins

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The Descriptive Phase of Language

I love to go back to nursery rhymes because I do think that that gives children that very first excitement about that words might are weird and exciting. There's a story behind a word so when you read a storybook each word is is another story in a way but with modern words they've distilled every bit of meaning, there's no story behind the vocabulary. We want everything to connect to like Angelina said that everything connect to something in our our real life experience I want this this to get. When we say tree then I picture tree and we get confused but when I say it's like a tree planted by streams of water that bears its fruit and season and it's rooted now now

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