Print-Rich Classrooms
An environment filled with meaningful written language. Example: (labels, signs, charts, books, and accessible writing tools.)
What is a print-rich classroom?
This center provides a space for reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities.
What is the Language Arts Center?
When teachers do this, centers become meaningful for children’s literacy development.
What is planning centers intentionally?
A relationship that helps support children’s literacy development.
What are family center partnerships?
Logos, labels, and signs children see every day are examples of this.
What is environmental print?
These classroom markers help children connect written words with real objects.
What are labels?
Books, writing tools, puppets, and alphabet charts are examples of materials found here.
What are Language Arts Center materials?
Teachers are advised to base center planning on these four things that apply to children.
What are children’s needs, interests, developmental levels, and cultural backgrounds?
Asking open-ended questions, storytelling, and everyday conversation are ways families can build these in a child.
What are children’s speaking abilities?
This term refers to all the words a child understands and uses.
What is vocabulary?
These examples of environmental print include schedules, bulletin boards, and classroom signs.
What are examples of environmental print?
This is the teacher’s primary role in the Language Arts Center.
What is modeling literacy behaviors and maintaining appropriate materials?
Teachers do this with materials to keep centers engaging and developmentally appropriate.
What is rotating materials?
Families are encouraged to create these simple home spaces to encourage positive reading habits.
What are at home reading centers?
When children clap out parts of words like “sun-shine,” they are practicing this.
What are syllables?
In a print-rich environment, teachers do this to show children that their reading and writing attempts are valued.
What is displaying children’s work?
This type of play is a natural way to promote storytelling and vocabulary.
What is dramatic play?
These three factors are important when choosing where to place computers in the classroom.
What is choosing a safe, supervised, and low-distraction location?
These practices support families who speak languages other than English.
What are providing translations, honoring home languages, and using culturally relevant practices?
This term refers to early reading and writing behaviors before formal instruction begins.
What is emergent literacy?
In a print-rich classroom, this exposure helps children understand and engage with written language long before they can read.
What is being surrounded by meaningful print?
These supports help Dual Language Learners fully participate in literacy centers.
What are bilingual books, picture cues, and culturally familiar materials?
The criteria recommended for selecting software for children.
What is choosing interactive, language-rich, and developmentally appropriate programs?
Teachers build trust with families by communicating with families like this.
What is communicating respectfully and without judgment?
This early skill involves knowing the names and shapes of letters.
What is alphabet knowledge?