Print Rich Classrooms
A place to grow, expand, test ideas, predict outcomes, and ask questions.
What is the classroom?
Barone and Xu (2008) suggest creating an inviting area that easily accommodates this many children at one time.
What is five to six?
Congenial, interested companions for the children
Who are teachers?
This is a child’s foremost teacher and model.
What is a family?
Characterized by an inability to hear sounds clearly. This may range from hearing speech sounds faintly or in a distorted way to profound deafness.
What are hearing disabilities?
Someone who actively encourages children to incorporate the print around them into play and classroom routines.
Who is the teacher?
Adding areas that children can do this on is another useful space-opening device.
What is climb?
These along with other dramatic play areas encourage large amounts of social interaction and the use of more mature, complex language.
What are block areas and housekeeping?
This is enhanced when caring adults enter into the children’s worlds of play and talk
What is learning?
The facility or sense by which sound is perceived.
What is hearing?
A rough floor plan, drawn to "this", and should be created so that it pinpoints the important center of an effective literacy classroom: the library/reading/book area.
What is to "scale?"
Paper, table, index cards, paper storage shelf, chalkboard with chalk are "these" materials.
What are writing and prewriting materials?
This is used on bulletin boards with objects, pictures, or patterns.
What is printscript?
Developing "this" grows from family feelings of being respected, accepted, and valued for their individual and cultural diversity.
What is trust?
A group of people attending a performance such as a play and/or dramatic presentation, or a group of listeners or spectators attending an event.
What is an audience?
This chart allows children to take off their names from the chart and place them in a basket as they enter the classroom.
What is an attendance chart?
Schools with "these" are always on the lookout for free or donated books, materials, and furnishings.
What are tight budgets?
This is one of the most underutilized instructional items in early childhood centers.
What is the chalkboard or whiteboard?
These types of schools may not use the same goals listed in national standards and instead may use other goals as the basis for their language arts instruction.
What are privately funded?
A classroom area designed to accommodate children’s listening experiences.
What is a listening center?
They suggest that the first step in creating an effective literacy classroom involves taking an inventory of supplies, furnishings, literacy materials—including the classroom book collection—and the technology available.
Who are Reutzel and Clark?
Teachers can motivate interest in and use of the center by posting children’s "this" on the center bulletin board.
What is work?
"These" usually involve clean hands, number of children allowed at one time, how to ask for help, taking turns, time allowed per turn, use of headphones, and what training is required before use.
What are rules?
The techniques or actions recommended to help children’s language and literacy development apply to both of these.
What are teachers and parents?
Community programs attempting to provide literacy-building opportunities and experiences for families. Services are available for both adults and children.
What are family literacy programs?