Print Rich Classrooms
This type of classroom feature encourages children to interact with printed materials in a natural and meaningful way, helping them recognize words and understand that print carries meaning.
What is "environmental print"?
This material found in the Language Arts Center encourages children to engage in pretend play while also practicing literacy skills like reading and writing.
What are "props" or "dramatic play materials"?
When planning language arts centers, teachers should provide activities that encourage these two essential skills for young children.
What are "language development" and "literacy skills"?
Teachers can strengthen family-home connections by regularly sending home these types of materials to involve parents in their child's literacy development.
What are "literacy newsletters" or "activity guides"?
What is a significant
developmental achievement that
marks a key point in a child's
growth, learning, or skill
acquisition.
What is Milestone?
In a print-rich classroom, this is one of the key strategies that educators use to help children make connections between spoken and written language.
What is "interactive writing"?
In a Language Arts Center, this type of activity allows children to practice phonemic awareness by identifying and manipulating sounds in words.
What is "phonemic games"?
A key component in planning centers involves this process, where teachers observe and assess children’s engagement with center activities to make necessary adjustments.
What is "ongoing assessment"?
This is one strategy that teachers can use to involve families in supporting their child’s language arts learning by encouraging shared reading and writing activities at home.
What is "home literacy bags"?
What refers to the
interrelation between an
individual's thoughts, feelings,
behaviors and their social
environment (relationships,
culture, community). It
emphasizes how social factors
influence mental.
What is Psychosocial?
This is a common practice in print-rich classrooms, where the teacher writes down children's dictated stories or thoughts to show how language can be written.
What is "shared writing"?
This type of resource often found in the Language Arts Center supports early writing skills by encouraging children to use their creativity and experiment with writing.
What are "writing materials" (e.g., paper, markers, stencils)?
This is a principle in planning centers that helps teachers ensure that materials are rotated and refreshed regularly to maintain children's interest and engagement.
What is "materials management"?
This practice encourages parents to provide a literacy-rich environment at home, emphasizing the importance of reading aloud to children daily.
What is "parental involvement in read-alouds"?
What view says that
language development comes
mainly from environmental
factors, like social interactions
and exposure to language.
What is Nurturist?
Research shows that these types of visual supports in the classroom such as word walls and labels serve to reinforce early literacy skills.
What are "print materials"?
Teachers often include this type of resource in the Language Arts Center to help children practice letter recognition, sound-letter correspondence, and early spelling skills.
What are "alphabet manipulatives"?
This is the term for the process of creating a balanced schedule of activities that includes time for independent, group, and teacher-directed learning in the language arts centers.
What is "center rotation planning"?
Research shows that this type of family involvement has a significant impact on a child’s early literacy development, particularly in terms of vocabulary growth.
What is "parent-child reading interactions"?
What are the five different types of listening that we learned in vocabulary #3?
What is toddler listening, purposeful listening, appreciative listening, critical listening, discriminative listening?
This term refers to an environment where children are surrounded by written materials in various forms, including labels, charts, and printed resources, to promote literacy development.
What is a "print-rich classroom"?
This area of the classroom is dedicated to activities that support the development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.
What is the "Language Arts Center"?
This is the first step in planning effective language arts centers to ensure they meet developmental needs and align with curriculum goals.
What is "identifying learning objectives"?
This term refers to the active collaboration between families and schools to support children's language and literacy development at home and in the classroom.
What is "family-home connection"?
What refers to the
progressive phases of sound
production that infants go through
as they develop their ability to
communicate through speech.
What is Stages of vocalization?