Print-Rich
Classrooms
Classrooms
A place for children to receive or deliver messages.
What is a class news bulletin board or message center?
A quiet cozy part of the classroom with books, writing materials, and other literacy materials.
What is a language art center?
Items including child size furniture, audiovisual equipment, storage units, books, whiteboards, rugs and carpets, charts, and bulletin boards.
What are general use materials?
A child's first and most influential school.
What is home?
A significant developmental achievement.
What is a milestone?
Using pictures and words around the class?
What is labeling?
Puppets, flannel boards, and language games.
What are speech materials?
Including books, instruments, and other materials from other cultures specifically from the cultures of the students in the classroom in center areas.
What is recognition and diversity in the classroom centers?
A partnership based on trust between educators and families for the child's benefit.
What is a collaborative partnership?
Listening for enjoyment and entertainment reasons such as listening to music.
What is appreciative listening?
A chart that has removable student names usually near the entrance.
What is an attendance chart?
Items and devices that have sights or sounds used for learning like computers, CD players, and DVD players.
What is audiovisual equipment?
These play centers can be used to increase verbal language and vocabulary and can be themed to match learning units.
What are the dramatic play centers and building centers?
Activities like parents reading to, playing with, conversing with, and questioning their children.
What are activities that parents can use to stimulate speaking abilities?
People that believe children are blank slates and rely solely on adults for learning.
Who are nurturists?
Studies show a print rich environment also needs to be this and this.
What is meaningful and functional?
Paper, writing utensils, picture dictionary, alphabet charts, magnet letters and magnet boards, scissors, yarn, and tape.
What are writing and prewriting materials?
The two types of center material categories.
What are "looking and listening" and "working with"?
Community programs that help both adults and children with reading.
What are family literacy programs?
Adults in the child’s life that pay attention to the child’s activities and communication efforts (both verbal and non-verbal).
Who are attuned adults?
Studies suggest this can have an adverse on a print rich environment.
What is excessive screen viewing?
A language art center provides looking and listening activities for children, it gives children an area for hands-on experiences with communication-developing materials, and it provides a place to store materials.
What are the three main functions of a language art center?
This center can help with problem solving, turn taking, self-confidence, literacy opportunities, and technology training.
What is the computer center?
Studies show this is related to higher attendance, better social skills and behavior, higher grades, lower rates of grade repetition, and higher rates of graduation.
What is parent and family involvement in academic success?
People who believe children construct their world view by interacting with people in their lives as well as their environment.
Who are social constructionist interactionists? /
Who are interactionists- social constructionist?