Print Rich Classrooms
Planning for Centers
Families and Child Literacy
Home & School Communication
Vocabulary
100

This is created to pinpoint the important center of an effective literacy classroom.

What is A rough “to scale” floor plan?

100

This can be used as an aid for instructional activities, child assessment, the storing or compiling of data, word processing, research, communication, and other teaching or professional functions.

What is Technology/computer center?

100

This is a time when families are usually informed of the school’s language and literacy curriculum.  

What are enrollment interviews?

100

_____ lets families know what plans the school has in place to address their children’s individual interests and growth, and whether their plans are working. 

What are conferences? 

100

A set of developmental goals that are used to see a child’s growth as they age.

What is a Milestone?

200

This is meaningful and serves a function for the children, with teachers actively encouraging children to incorporate the print around them into play and classroom routines.

What is a print-rich environment?

200

This is a wide range of commercial programs developed for computer users’ convenience, education, entertainment, and so on.

What is Software?

200

This grows when family members feel respected, accepted, and valued for their individual and cultural diversity, and it also grows when staff members are sensitive to family economics.

What is Developing trust?

200

This is an essential skill in learning to read.

What is Phonemic awareness?

200

Progression of sound production in infant development.

What are Stages of vocalization?

300

A ______ environment provides successful experiences for all children in a climate in which ideas and creative learning flourish.

What is prepared?

300

This needs to be in a visible location where monitors are visible throughout the classroom

What are Computers?

300

Data and research show that a family’s socioeconomic status, cultural and linguistic group membership, parenting style, and home literacy experiences correlate with _____. 

What are knowledge and skills that children bring to school?

300

Providing childcare, family dinners, and educator actions are some of the ways early childcare centers increase _______. 

What is parent participation and involvement?

300

Language patterns that differ from standard English.

What is Dialect?

400

Materials and settings can isolate one or many learning centers in the room, and each might _______ more language or perceptual skills.

What is promote? 

400

This encourages children to explore and to extend their thinking, and sparks children’s interest as well as social and cognitive development.

What are Open-ended programs?

400

This ensures program quality after their state legislators became aware of research concerning young children’s brain capacity and growth

What are established standards and practices?

400

Doing this action at the beginning of the day starts a warm, comfortable atmosphere, encourages talking, and sets the tone for conversation.

What is Greeting both families and children as they arrive?

400

This type of listening is when the child is aware of pitch and sound changes, which leads to children being able to discriminate speech sounds. 

What is Discriminative Listening?

500

This can promote language skills in many ways since it provides the reality behind words and ideas. It also supplies opportunities for sensory exploration and increases children’s knowledge of relationships.

What is The classroom environment?

500

Some educators see computer programs as offering a _____ rather than the real experiences and human interactions upon which real knowledge and literacy depends.

What is a cartoon world?

500

A term that early childcare centers use when talking about these family communication styles, classroom mailboxes, parent advisory committees, parent councils, family questionnaires, surveys, checklists, e-mail, reading groups, home–school meetings, planning workshops, and daily contacts.

What is Vehicle?

500

Something an educator should do daily to keep families aware of their children’s expanding interests.

What is Family mailboxes and shared messages on digital apps?

500

People who believe that children are born with biological dispositions for learning that grow naturally through life. 

What is Nativist?

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