Vocabulary
This term describes the ability of children to understand language before they can speak it.
What is receptive language?
These are simple signs that show children where items belong, often using both words and pictures.
What are labeled shelves?
A hands-on activity where children explore with their senses.
What is sensory play?
A short message sent home to keep families informed on classroom events?
What is newsletter?
A center where children build with blocks.
What is the block center?
This word means small or tiny.
What is little?
This shows children the order of the day using pictures and words?
What is a daily schedule?
A chapter that explains how children learn language, build vocabulary, and comunicate?
What is a language and literacy chapter?
A planned meeting where teachers and families discuss a child's progress and goals?
What is a parent-teacher conference?
A center that encourages pretend play and imagination.
What is dramatic play?
A word that describes how something feels, like rough or smooth.
What is texture?
Posting classroom rules with pictures helps children understand expectations. This is called what?
What is a daily schedule?
Unit that includes song, rhymes, and rhythm activities.
What is music and movement chapter?
This tool allows teachers to share photos, updates, and reminders in real.
What is a family communication app?
Teachers rotate materials in centers to keep learning fresh. This is called.
What is material rotation?
This term refers to the smallest unit of sound in language that can change meaning?
What are phonemes?
How does a teacher show intrest?
By showing interest in children's printing attempts.
A chapter that teaches children how to work together and solve problems?
What is social-emotional language?
When teachers intentionally plan ways to include families' cultures, language, and traditions.
What is culturally responsive communication?
Planning centers requires thinking about what children should learn, this is called what?
What learning objectives?
A word that means using clues to figure out something not directly stated.
What is infer?
A classroom that includes menus, signs, maps, charts, and labels is supporting literacy through this type of real-word text.
What is functional print?
A chapter that blends literacy, math, science, and play into one theme.
What is Integrated curriculum unit?
When teachers and families work together to support learning, it is called this.
What is partnership?
When teachers observe children in centers and adjust activities based on their needs.
What is intentional planning?