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Vocabulary
100

This environment offers materials that capture attention, motivate play, and build communication skills.

What is the early childhood classroom?

100

The ideal this has comfortable, soft furnishings with ample work space, proper lighting, and screening to block out other areas of an active classroom. 

What is a language center?

100

Educators always have this in mind when rearranging their classrooms and planning for centers. 

What is the goal of children grasping the concept?

100

This grows from family feelings of being respected, accepted, and valued for. 

What is trust?

100

This is defined as a step a baby hits as they are growing and developing.

What is a milestone?

200

This is a suggestion for a print rich classroom that can be printed and posted around the classroom and something you can practice saying with children each day.

What is a slogan?

200

Small areas in a language center can be enlarged by using this tactic with lofts or bunks to solve floor space issues.

What is building upwards?

200

This can help teachers evaluate and improve their literacy environments. 

What is a checklist?

200
Classroom mailboxes, parent advisory committees, and parent councils help with the encouragement of this in schools?

What is family input?

200

This occurs when a child becomes aware of changing in pitch and loudness.

What is discriminative listening?

300

These two suggested that the first step in creating an effective literacy classroom involves taking an inventory of certain classroom objects. 

Who are Reutzel and Clark?

300

These two suggest creating an inviting area that easily accommodates five to six children at one time.

Who are Barone and Xu?

300

Some of these children have less social contact with peers and less interest in reading, which affects their school performance.

Who are gamers?

300

Sorting groceries by category with their child is a type of this that can help with language development in children.

What is a family action?

300

These types of people believe that children are born with biological dispositions for learning that unfold or mature in a natural way

What is a nativist?

400

Gerde et al's 2015 study of this many children from 68 classrooms found a correlation between the level of print in the classroom and children's writing ability. 

What is 265?

400

These two suggested furnishings for a language center are often behind one another on a child's easel. 

What are a chalkboard and whiteboard? 

400

Research on the use of technology in children under this age is still in it's infacy.

What is the age of five?

400

Encouraging children to tell stories is a way parents can this with their children. 

What is stimulate speaking abilities? 

400

Patty cake and Peek A Boo are examples of these.

What are baby games?

500

A prepared environment provides these for all children in a climate in which ideas and creative learning flourish.

What are successful experiences?

500

This material is a great way for teachers to keep each student's materials and projects organized. 

What is a children's work file box?
500

Research says that computer program use has been found to improve the speech skills of children with this learning disability. 

What is dyslexia?

500

They point out that families, especially those using government-sponsered and funded preschool care, may unfortunately adopt parenting styles that overuse verbal commands and directives. 

Who is Dookupil?

500

This is occurs when a child understands, evaluates, makes decisions, and formulates opinions.

What is critical listening?