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Vocabulary
100

Sticks to a board or fit in a slot in a play area that accommodates only a certain number of children at any given time.

What is: Child tickets or cards bearing children’s names

100

A language center has how many main functions?

What is three?



100

Pens, pencils, crayons, felt-tipped markers, colored pencils and paper are in this center. 

What is Writing Center?

100

This pre-preschool program started in 1989 provides free books to over four million low-income families.

What is Reach Out and Read


100

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 Disabilites?

200

Examples of environmental print that children encounter in their daily lives?

What are Labels, Signs, Logos and Posters



200

What types of materials can be included in the language arts center?



What are: Books, magazines, newspapers, writing tools, paper, envelopes, stamps



200

This center is designed to accommodate children's listening experiences and contains things such as CD players, headsets, dry-erase boards, tape recorders, etc.

What is a Listening Center?



200

__________ is a program's attempt to provide supportive assistance to families to promote their children's success in school and developmental growth.

What is Outreach?

200

The belief that the minds of children are blank/unformed and need educational input or direct instruction to develop and show knowledge and appropriate behavior.

What is a Nurturist?



300

Chart allows children to take off their names from the chart and place them in a basket as they enter the classroom.

What is Attendance Chart

300

Schools with __________ are always on the lookout for free or donated books, materials, and furnishings

What are Tight Budgets?


300

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?



300

This is a child’s foremost teacher and model.

What is a Family?

300

This type of listening involves enjoying the speaker’s style, humor, or message

What is appreciative listening?

400

Books, artwork, a range of household items and culturally inclusive clothing are ways to showcase and promote

What is diversity?



400

Language arts centers should be___________ that are separated from the more vigorous classroom activities.

What are quiet places?

400

This center should have a rug, throw pillows, rocking chair, bean bag chair, and stuffed animals and be placed in a quiet spot.

What is Literacy Center?

400

What are way families can participate in language arts events and projects?

What are Reading nights, book fairs, storytelling festivals, writing celebrations



400

A type of listening where the child begins to discern whether a sound or sound pattern is the same or different.

What is Discriminative Listening?



500

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 (2011)

500

CD/DVD player, Headsets, Story recordings, TV

Computer, Tablets are examples of. 

What is Audiovisual Equipment?


500

Children may experience additional benefits such as ability to see uses of print, which include recording, informing, sending, and receiving messages in this center. 

What is Computer Center?

500

What are some barriers families face when it comes to school involvement?

What are Time, distance, language, culture, and resources. 



500

Ensures elements of the classroom, curriculum and experience is age appropriate, individually appropriate and culturally appropriate.

What is Developmentally Appropriate Practice?



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