I am a teacher of early learners and I believe we can still try to stimulate the minds of our students by teaching them to be critical thinkers , give simple prompts to  encourage  engaging conversations . Of course , with ell students , there has to be prompt starters and wait  time expectations to give them a chance to speak. Doing this would  allow the teacher ir even other students to  elicit information especially  during the inquiry process. 

I am a teacher of early learners and I believe we can still try to stimulate the minds of our students by teaching them to be critical thinkers , give simple prompts to  encourage  engaging conversations . Of course , with ell students , there has to be prompt starters and wait  time expectations to give them a chance to speak. Doing this would  allow the teacher ir even other students to  elicit information especially  during the inquiry process. 

Agree Grace Saturnino ! With younger students, as Tuyen mentioned, I try to meet them where they are at. I usually ask them to tell me why they might be late for school/be grounded etc and then get them to peel back their explanation of causes from trigger/monocausal explanations to ones that might be medium/long term ones. It is fun to do!