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%u00a9 Elklan Training Limited 2023 117Elklan. Speech and Language Support for 3-5sS66.1.2 What is an open question?(Slide 150)%u2022 Define.%u2022 Ask for examples and check that everyone understands.%u2022 Ask - do open questions promote language development? (Yes and far more than closed questions.)%u2022 Open questions vary tremendously in terms of the challenges they present young children. Is there a framework which helps us to explore different types of questions in terms of language development?%u2022 Explain that the rest of this session is going to focus on open questions because the scheme that%u2019s explored does NOT include yes/no or closed questions.6.2.0 INTRODUCE THE BLANK LANGUAGE SCHEME(Slide 151)6.2.1 History%u2022 Most of this workshop is based on the work on the work of Blank, Rose and Berlin in 1978. %u2022 The authors are American but Blank is used extensively in Australia.%u2022 They looked at the language demands teachers place on a child. They looked at the language teachers use and graded it according to complexity.