### language:

Oral language
* consist of sounds joined together in ways specified by grammar rules.
* develops when children share ideas and communicate with each other during their play.
* includes speaking and listening.
* is the foundation of reading and writing.
* is the foundation on which all communication is based
  - reading is built
  - greatest strength a child brings to literacy learning
* much more global language than that of the universities or church declarations.

Pattern language
* are a useful medium for documenting software architectures.
* describe software frameworks or families of related systems.
* help programmers design programs.

Phrase
* are construction
  - dancing
  - musical sentences that are punctuated by cadences or stopping points
* are part of sentences
  - tunes
  - passage
  - strings of words that are adjacent in a document
* combine to create structure or form in music.
* grouping of words.
* have rhythms.
* includes head words
  - syllables
* is an interactive phenomenon involving conceptual, perceptual, and physical conditions
* natural grouping of measures.

### language | phrase:

Infinitive phrase
* can act as adjectives, adverbs, and nouns.
* have the same functions as infinitives.

Prepositional phrase
* are either adjectives or adverbs
  - phrases
* can function as adjectives or adverbs.
* conclude with an object, a noun or a pronoun.
* modify nouns and verbs.

Plain language
* is an important aspect of how organizations manage and communicate their information.
* means language that is clear and readily understandable to the intended readers.

Query language
* allows searching by the value of a field.
* based on relational calculus are nonprocedural.
* is language

### language:

Reading
*  eye strain.
* allows people to become more knowledgeable about many subjects.
* are activities
  - capable of further education
  - datums
  - interpretations
  - measurements
  - texts to be read for their value as an academic analysis of popular culture.
  * can be something that someone does by themself or they can read aloud. This could be done to benefit other listeners. It could also be done to help concentrate
* are used for acculturation
  - accumulating knowledge
  - enjoyment
  - enlightenment
  - entertainment
  - knowing
  - pleasure
  - relaxation
  - research
  - studyings
  - understanding
* begins long before a child enters school.
* can also provide a time of close interaction between parent and child
* can begin soon after a baby's birth
  - with babies and continue throughout the preschool years
  - expand children's thinking
  - slow down the world and open communication on a daily basis
* cause a desire to thinks
  - calmness
  - drowsiness
  - headaches
  - ideas
  - increase knowledge
  - new perspective
  - thoughts
* helps babies understand language and helps their language develop appropriately
  - children build self-esteem, and helps plant the seed for success later in life
* helps children learn about language
  - their world
* helps children learn to spell
  - improve thinking and intelligence on all forms
  - individuals form their own opinions and strengthens their sense of self
  - kids develop critical thinking skills, vocabulary and imagination
  - prepare our children to learn how to accept their own responsibility
  - the mind, and memory
  - thinking, writing and spelling
* helps to expand the mind and scope
  - improve vocabulary, sequencing, and attention span
* improves a child s understanding of the world.
* is used in everyday life, such as driving, ordering food, reading a recipe, etc
  - to stimulate writing
* makes a child want to learn how to read.
* plays a large role in other learning areas.
* requires the ability to track words and letters from left to right.

### language | reading:

Active reading
* helps concentration.
* learnable skill that improves with practice.