Print-Rich Classrooms
The person responsible of creating a print-rich environment.
What is Teacher/Educator?
-Provides looking and listening activities for children.
-It gives children an area for hands-on experiences with communication-developing materials
-It provides a place to store materials.
What is a Language Center?
A classroom area designed to accommodate children's listening experiences.
What is a listening center?
Community programs attempting to provide literacy-building opportunities and experiences for families. Services are available for both Adults and Children.
What is Family Literacy Programs?
The physical or behavioral signs of development of infants and children.
What is a milestone?
The people who suggest creating an inviting area that easily accommodates five to six children at one time.
Who is Barone and Xu?
These can be used as room area boundaries.
What is bookcases?
A place usually in a quiet, separated spot, and has a low traffic area of the room.
What is a Computer Center?
How teachers let families know what plans the school has in place to address their children's individual interests and growth, and whether their plans are working.
What are conferences?
A theory such as that of Jean Piaget, based on the belief that children construct knowledge for themselves rather than having it conveyed to them by some external source.
What is Interactionists-Constructivist?
What does a Print-Rich classroom offer?
The early childhood classroom offers materials that capture attention, motivate play, and build communication skills.
Paper (scratch, lined, newsprint, and typing paper in a variety of sizes), file or index cards, paper storage shelf, writing tools (crayons, nontoxic washable felt markers, and soft pencils in baskets or other containers. Additional writing tools include washable and dry-erase crayons, markers, and window crayons.) word boxes picture dictionary wall-displayed alphabet guides cutouts of colorful alphabet letters tabletop chalkboards with chalk.
What are Writing and prewriting Materials?
Manipulatives
Children participate in designing the center.
Area placed in a quiet section of the room.
Visually and physically accessible yet partitioned from the rest of the room. Rug, throw pillows, rocking chair, bean bag chair, and stuffed animals.
Private spot in the corner, such as a box to crawl into and read.
The center uses 10% of the classroom and fits 5-6 children.
What is a Checklist for Literacy centers?
This project was based on teaching parents how to support their children in the acquisition of school-based literacy behaviors.
What is Project Flame?
The child follows directions and gives responses.
What is Purposeful Listening?
The people who suggested that the first step in creating an effective literacy classroom involves taking inventory of supplies, furnishings, literacy materials- including the classroom book collection- and the technology available.
Who is Reutzel and Clark?
One or more child-size tables and chairs shelving dividers or screens, soft-cushioned rocker, easy chair, or couch soft pillows, crawl-into hideaways or cozy corners, lined with carpet or fabric, individual workspaces or study spots audiovisuals and electrical outlets book racks that display book covers, chalkboard, whiteboard, storage cabinets, pocket chart, etc.
What are General-Use Materials?
tables and chairs
writing posters and a bulletin board for children to display their writing by themselves
writing utensils (pens, pencils, crayons, felt-tipped markers, colored pencils)
writing materials (many varieties of paper in all sizes, booklets, and pads)
computer or tablet with keyboard
Materials for writing stories and making them into books
A message board for children to post messages for the teacher and students
A place to store “Very Own Words”
Folders for children to place samples of their writing
What is a checklist for Writing center (The Author's Spot)?
This person said, Families should be urged to preserve traditions, celebrate cultural richness and personal stories, value family heritage, and share family social issues and concerns.
Who is Ada?
The child becomes aware of changes in pitch and loudness. Sounds become differentiated in the environment. Eventually, the child can discriminate the speech sounds.
What is Discriminative Listening?
These people said, the physical and emotional comfort level of classroom areas and spaces are central to the literacy learning of all students and, in particular, English language learners.
Who are Barone and Xu?
Overhead projector, CD/DVD player, headsets, and jacks, story recordings, picture files, television screen and VCR/DVD player, computer and printer, video camera, digital camera, tablets, MP3 players.
What is Audiovisual Equipment?
Consisting of collections of drawings and photographs that teachers find as invaluable motivators for many language-related child activities in a language center.
What is Picture Files?
These people said Family literacy programs have a greater chance of success and longevity when they at-tempt to tap into the wealth of background knowledge and experiences of the family (parent/caregiver) participants.
Who is Ortiz and Ordonez-Jasis?
AN adult who responds with sensitivity and accuracy based on understanding of an infant's (or young child's) cues.
What is Attuned Adults?