Print Rich Classrooms
A study of 265 children from 68 classrooms found the emphasis that not only on the environment be print rich but also the print be meaningful and serve function for the children.
Who is Gerde et al's (2015)?
Suggest creating an inviting area that easily accommodates five to six children at one time.
Who is Barone and Xu (2008)?
Area with manipulatives such as roll movie or puppets with related book, quiet section of room with rugs, pillows, rocking chair, or bean bag chair.
What is a literacy center?
Although families and teachers are partners in a child's education, a ( Blank) is a child's foremost teacher and model.
what is family?
Has three main functions; provides looking and listening activities, gives children an area for hands on experience with communication developing materials, and provides a place to store materials.
What is a language center?
Create a message center and classroom news bulletin where children can give and receive messages from teacher and vice versa.
What is suggestion for print-rich environment?
Language arts centers should be a (Blank) space that are separated from the more vigorous classroom activities.
What is quiet?
Area with book shelves for story books, check in and check out system for children to take out books daily, headsets and taped stories, felt board with story characters related to a book, and other story manipulatives.
What is a Reading Center?
When reaching out to families, teachers are likely to find that intra-group differences may be as great as intra-groups differences. Efforts could include (Blank) to increase a program's ability to communicate and create trust.
What is hiring bicultural and bilingual staff?
Simple technology, such as tape recorder, CD/DVD player, electronic media, and headsets.
What is audiovisual equipment?
Suggest that the first step in creating an effective literacy classroom involves taking inventory of supplies, furnishings, literacy, and materials.
Who is Reutzel and Clark ( 2011 )?
Congenial and interested companions for the children; sharing books, helping children with projects, recording children's dictations, playing and demonstrating language games, making words, word lists, signs or charts.
What is the teacher's role in the language center?
Area with table and chairs, writing posters, writing utensils, computers or tablet, a place to store " Very own Words", and folders for children to place samples of their writing?
What is a Writing center?
These include classroom mailboxes, parent advisory committees, parent councils, family questionnaires, surveys, checklists, emails, reading groups, home-school meetings, planning workshops, and daily contact.
What is means of obtaining family input?
A classroom area designed to accommodate children's listening experience.
What is a listening center?
Can promote language skills in many ways since it provides the reality behind words and ideas.
What is the classroom?
To help children use equipment, materials, and technology on their own.
What is a step by step picture charts posted above or near the material?
Slowly but surely this center is becoming standard in three- and four- year old's preschool classrooms.
What is a computer center?
Sorting groceries by categories, arrange things so that the child has opportunity to see operations from beginning to end, example: making butter from whipping cream., and believe that fantasy play ( make-believe ) is correlated with being creative and possessing greater social skills
What is recommended family actions to develop literacy and language development.
A wide range of commercial programs developed for computer users' convenience, education, entertainment, and so on.
What is software?
Provides successful experiences for all children in a climate in which ideas and creative learning flourish.
What is a prepared environment?
Learning word recognition, as well as some of the more advanced reading skills.
Who is children who use read-alongs ?
This is meant to to be a beneficial tool for the classroom to aid instructional activities, child assessment, and storing or collecting data, word processing, research, communication and other teaching and professional functions.
What is technology?
talking to children naturally and clearly, read stories, poems, and riddles, encourage children to tell stories, asking questions that promote thinking, predicting, and several possible correct answer.
What is parent stimulating speaking abilities.
Community programs attempting to provide literacy-building opportunities and experiences for families.
What are family literacy programs ?