Print Rich Classrooms
When a number of printed related activities are included in the classroom.
What is a Print-rich classroom?
Provides looking and listening activities, gives an area for hands-on experiences with communication-developing materials, and provides a place to store materials.
What are the three main functions of the language center?
Area where blocks and other manipulatives for building and block play may occur.
What is Block Center?
The setting, models, and planned and unplanned events.
What are the influences of child literacy at home and in school?
Social and economic issues that may effect a child.
What is socioeconomic?
Center with a news bulletin where children can give and receive messages.
What is a message center?
Puppets and puppet theaters, flannel board sets, and language games.
What are speech materials?
Are where kitchen activities and dress up items are available.
What is the dramatic play center?
Encourage family participation, Consistent two-way communication, seek information about families' lifestyle and community and integrate into the curriculum, support family effort to create home environments that value learning.
What are some of the Engaging Diverse Families Project activities identified by the NAEYC?
Written, detailed, teaching plans.
What is an activity plan?
Chart that allows children to take way their names and place them in another area.
What is an Attendance Chart?
Story recordings, digital camera, iPads, and tablets.
What is audiovisual equipment?
Area where tracing templates and chalk boards may be available.
What is writing center?
Create home activities for matching, sort the groceries by categories, when asking question make sure the child is focused, and quickly slip in and out of play with the child.
What are some recommended family actions?
The process that allows new experiences to merge with previously stored mental structures.
What is assimilation?
The use of children's name, physical features, or their preferences.
What is the use of graphing activities?
Books, cutouts of story characters, and story charts.
What are examples of Reading and Prereading Materials?
Area where magnifying glasses, beakers, and magnets may be available to explore.
What is Science Center?
Talk to children naturally and clearly, read to them, encourage play with manipulatives, Encourage children to story tell, and increase attempts to build vocab by using new and descriptive words.
What are ways parents can stimulate Speaking?
Person, animal, or thing represented in a story or book.
What are characters?
The important center of effective literacy in the classroom.
What is the Language Arts center?
Paper, index cards, writing tools, scissors, and tape.
What are examples of writing and prewriting materials?
Area where headphones and music players may be available.
What is listening center?
Supply literature, write down things children say about pictures they have made, read to them, supply paper and writing tools, and supply alphabet toys.
How can parents build print awareness?
Early childhood term describing a planned gathering of children, led by a teacher.
What is circle-time?