Study sheet for early years educator training · Communication / German
Early years educator training flashcard: Analysing communication systematically
Communication can be examined with three questions: How, why and what do we communicate? This separates form, function and content.
Ask how, for what purpose and what is being communicated.
Key professional terms
Kommunikationsform
How the message is conveyed
Kommunikationsfunktion
The purpose communication serves
Kommunikationsinhalt
The message being conveyed
Example from early years practice
A child silently points to a water bottle: non-verbal form, request as function, thirst as content.
Memory sentence
„How, why, what: form, function, content.“
Last professionally reviewed: 4 September 2026