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Can promote language skills in many ways providing the reality behind words and ideas
What is classroom environment?
What type of activities does a language center provide to help children develop their communication skills?
What are looking and listening activities?
Why are materials demonstrated before they are made available to the children?
What is to ensure proper use and respectful handling?
Which is a child's foremost teacher and model?
What is Family?
Mechanical or nonmechanical item useful in offering sight or hearing experience
What is audiovisual equipment?
Provides successful experiences for all children in a climate in which ideas and creative learning flourish
What is prepared environment?
A language center includes activities where children observe and listen. What is the primary purpose of these activities?
What is to develop communication skills?
Why do teachers use step-by-step picture charts?
What is to help children use equipment, materials, and technology on their own?
Teachers should not make assumptions about a family's what?
What is parenting practices?
Classroom area designed to accommodate children's listening experiences
What is listening center?
How do materials and furnishings impact the design of the classroom?
What is they can isolate one or many learning centers in the room?
How does a language center help children practice their communication skills besides activities like looking and listening?
What is through hands-on experiences with materials?
Children who use read-alongs are learning what?
What is word recognition and more advanced reading skills?
The essential element is the intimacy between the child and the people in their life who share a common environment; this intimacy fosters, what?
What is the understanding of meanings and child curiosity?
Classroom specifically set aside and equipped for language arts-related activities and child use
What is Language Center?
How do materials and settings help children practice and accomplish tasks?
What is they allow for practice and accomplishment through interactive play and exploration?
Why does a language center need a place to store materials?
What is to keep them organized and accessible for activities?
Teachers design spacious, well-defined, well-stocked areas for which two learning areas?
What is block play and dramatic play?
Families feelings of being respected, accepted, and valued for their individual and cultural diversity is called?
What is developing trust?
Early childhood program's attempt to provide supportive assistance to attempting children's families to promote their children's success in school and developmental growth
What is outreach?
What specific skills do certain materials promote in a child?
What is language and perceptual skills?
The ideal language center has comfortable, soft furnishings with ample work space, proper lightening, and screening to help children do what?
What is block out other areas of an active classroom?
Which two of the most underutilized instructional items in early childhood are?
What is chalkboard or whiteboard?
Family-school contacts usually take place in at least eight ways. What are the eight ways?
What is daily conversations, e-mails, written communications, shared school-home, communication digital apps, family meetings, workshops, social events, and individual conferences?
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?