Print Rich Classrooms
promotes language skills since it provides the reality behind words and ideas, and adds opportunities for exploring sensory and creates relationships.
Classroom environment
what is determined from the beginning
Materials, display storage, working spaces, and looking and listening areas.
Teachers are struggling in ____, _____, and _____ ____ to learn about family practices, beliefs, and educational needs and desires
Urban, coastal, and border states
a classroom area specifically set aside and equipped for language arts-related activities and child use.
A language center
Families are usually informed of the schools ____ and ____ curriculum during enrollment interviews.
langauge and literacy
Educators should clarify ____ and ___ each learning center will be focused on.
goals and needs
Old footed bathtubs with soft pillows, packing crates and barrels, pillow-lined closets with doors removes, tepees, tents, canopies, and screened-off couches and armchairs
Most centers provide quiet spaces
storytelling frequently, using hand gestures, asking for silence, communicating fear and emotions in different ways, and using speech at a slower or faster pace.
Family language practice
1- provides looking and listening activities for children
2- gives children an area for hands-on experiences with communication- developing materials
3- provides a place to store materials
3 main functions of a language center.
the Census Bureau’s Current Population Study in 2020 showed that 70 percent of children under 18 lived with two parents (regardless of marital status), down from 85 percent in 1968.
according to Hemez and Washington (2021)
Should be an area to grow, expand, test ideas, predict outcomes, and ask questions.
The classroom
picture books, picture storybooks, traditional literature, poetry, realistic literature, biograpies, chapter books
Books that represent three to four grade levels
Let families know the plans in school and how to address individual interests and growth
Conferences
comfortable, soft furnishings with work space, proper lighting, and something to block other areas of work.
a ideal language center
setting, models, and planned and unplanned events
Child literacy at home and school is influenced by
This study explained that the environment should be print-rich as well as the print itself should be important.
Gerde etal.'s (2015) study
a wide range of commercial programs developed for computer users' convenience, education, entertainment and so on
software
Teachers gain insight into family _____, ____, _____, and _____ _____ during these conferences
goals, concerns, resources, and home environments
sharing books, helping with projects, recording children's dictation, playing language games, making words, lists, signs, and charts, and helping with center equipment
A teachers role
an early childhood programs attempt to provide supportive assistance to attending children's families to promote their children's success in school and developmental growth
outreach
Gives and receives a message from the teacher or vice versa.
A message center or bulletin.
a visible location where monitors are visible throughout the classroom, enables supervision and quick assistance
Ideal location for computers in the classroom.
blends child development research with traditional and community based wisdom
A family and parenting training effort developed by the National Latino Children’s Institute (2008)
High levels of dramatic ____ ____ are also encouraged in theme centers
Play interaction
A ______ ______ should have reaches homes beforehand that included a statement about whether a family member is welcome to stay if their child seems to need extra support
Welcoming letter