Print Rich Classrooms
What does a print rich classroom promote, according to the text?
Language Skills
In language arts centers, related instructional materials are located in how many convenient and inviting area(s)?
One
What is an important aspect of a concentration based center?
Quiet (Privacy)
Who is a child's foremost teacher and model?
Family
Early language stage in sound production in which an infant engages in vocal play with vowel and consonant sound.
Babbling
There is a correlation between the level of print in a classroom and what skill?
Writing Ability
How many children should this area accommodate at one time?
5 to 6
What type of center is becoming a new normal?
Computer Centers
Where is the child's most influential school?
Home
An early stage during the pre-linguistic period in which vowel sounds are repeated,particularly the u-u-u sound.
Cooing
Name an example of an item that would be displayed in a diverse print rich classroom.
Printed language examples. (Would also accept: household items, cultural clothing, musical instruments, photographs, books.)
Language arts centers need to be separated from what?
Vigorous Classroom Activities (Noise)
What can be used to make boundaries to block off an area as a center?
Bookcases
Educators should follow a family-by-_ approach when it comes to relationships with families.
Family-by-Family
The process that creates mental images, concepts, and operations.
Cognition
Not only should the classroom be print-rich, but the print should also be _?
Meaningful
Language arts centers have three main functions: (1) provides looking/listening activities (2) an area for hands-on experiences with materials, and (3) it provides a place for _______?
Storing Materials
Once rooms or areas are designated as language centers, staff members classify materials into “looking and listening” or "_ _" categories
“working with”
Encourage family participation in ____.
Decision Making
Extended eye contact between infant and caregiver.
Gaze Coupling
Reutzel and Clark (2011) suggest that the first step in creating an effective literacy classroom involves doing what?
Taking Inventory of Supplies
Small areas can be enlarged by building in which direction for more space for your classroom?
Upward
Teachers have gotten creative in making private spaces, even using what unique item as a workable space?
An Old Bathtub
Child literacy at home and school is influenced by three important factors: (1) setting, (2) ____ (3) planned and unplanned events.
Models
Those who adhere to the theory that children are born with biological dispositions for learning that unfold or mature in a natural way.
Nativists