The Language Arts Center
What are three main functions of the language center?
What is Provides looking and listening activities, gives children an area for hands on experiences with communication developing materials, and provides a place to store material?
The early childhood classroom should offer materials that ?
What is capture attention, motivate play, and build communication skills?
Which approach do researchers advice teachers to consider to use to enhance relationships with families?
What is the Family-by-Family approach?
A reference for judging progress?
What is a Milestone?
What are conversations concerning some connection between objects, events, concepts, and or conclusions that one speaker pointed out?
What is ExploratoryTalk?
It is suggested to accomidate how many children comfortable in a language area at one time?
What is 5 to 6 children?
What are central to the literacy learning for all students and particular English Language Learners?
What is a Physical and Emotional comfort level?
Child literacy at home and school is influenced by what three important factors?
What is. 1. Setting
2. Models
3. Planned and unplanned events
Language patterns that differ from the standard English
What is Dialect?
How can teachers study the cultures of enrolled children.
Teachers can start by identifying components of culture such as family structure, definitions of stages, periods, or transtitions, roles of adults and children, religion, foods, history, and even holidays.
What is another way to open up space in language area?
What is adding areas that children can climb into?
How do teachers recognize and support children differences and diverse home lives?
What is Teachers display things refering to diverse home lives, cultural clothing, musical instruments, printed language examples, books and other materials?
How do families develop trust?
What is trust is developed and grows from families feelings of being respected, accepted, and valued for their individual and cultural diversity and grows when staff are sensitive to family economics?
A strategy that is used to to unleash creative potential creating an emotional response or action?
What is Creative Listening?
What are some expressive and receptive language difficulties idicators?
What are Limited use of language, trouble starting and or responding, heavy reliance on gesture or non verbal communication, limited vocabulary, inappropriate grammer, and difficulty in sequencing rhymes or stories.
Adults usually supervise use of audio visual equiptment in language centers. What are some examples of audio visual equiptment?
What is Tape recorders, cd/dvd players, electronic media, and headphones?
The first step to creating an effective literacy classroom involves?
What is Take inventory of supplies, furniture, literacy materials including class book collection, and technology available?
What are best practicies when communicating with families in early childhood setting?
What is make yourself known, and always greet families and make them feel welcome/
They believe in the natural unfolding or maturing of children without direct teaching from adults?
What is a Nativist?
What ae some of the types of stories teachers might share?
Fables, myths, participation stories, classic tales, and traditional stories.
Language Arts Centers should be?
What is a quiet place separated from more vigorous classroom activitites?
One way that teachers can create a print rich environment is?
What is teachers can lable everything in the classroom that has a connection to curret curriculum and post a picture or photo of the daily routine.
What are ways schools can receive imput from families?
What is Schools have developed vehicles to ensure family imput is a part of the plan with things such as Class Mailbox, Parent Advisory Committee, Parent Council, surveys, and Checklists?
Child development and learning as taking place between children in enviornment and Believing in children's creation of their own internal knowledge.
What is a constructivist?
Using these helps children see that stories progress from begining to end with events, actions, and happening a sequence?
What is Visual Sequence Cards?