Print-Rich Classrooms
Often seen by a child during their free time with bins marked as "blocks" or "trains"
What is Labeling?
Planned areas in which Printing is promoted.
What are Writing Centers?
No center can happen without all these different pieces that allow the student to complete the center activity.
What are materials?
It is through these factors that a child's at home literacy skills are most influenced: setting, planned/unplanned events, and _____
What are models?
As the name suggests, this form of listening comes with a purpose. The purpose is to respond to the student being addressed.
What is purposeful listening?
"A, B, C, D..." all over the wall
What are alphabet displays?
______ skills such as picture, configuration, context, phonetic, and structural clues all help greatly during center times as students practice reading.
What is word attack or decoding?
Areas for quiet or single person reading with soft chairs and plenty of books.
What are private reading spaces?
Relationships are everything. And this relationship is everything for language and literacy development at home.
What are Family Home Connections?
Students listen to differentiate the differences of tone, pitch, and loudness of people speaking to better understand how and why things are said as they are.
What is Discriminative Listening?
"Have" H-A-V-E, "You" Y-O-U, "Seen" S-E-E-N, "This" T-H-I-S, around the classroom before? Possibly posted in a spot for older students to study.
What is a Sight Word Wall?
Using laminated cards, worksheets and dry-erase markers the point of this activity helps in spelling letters before words, by tracing them, teaching students this important skill.
What is printscript/writing?
A multifunctional center that can teach, literacy, writing, language, typing, and turn-taking skills.
What is the computer center?
Not all families live the same lifestyle. Some times it is crucial to be aware of these occurrences in the home to best support a family and child in language development.
What are family circumstances?
How children learn and best develop ideas of language through social constructs and engagements in their environment. The development of this all comes in 8 stages as theorized by Erik Erikson.
What is the pychosocial approach?
An area filled with pages of fun and information for every student to read and enjoy. Often has pretty comfortable chairs to sit in.
What is a library or reading center?
Lights, Camera, Action! This activity allows for literacy practice through fun shows done by the hands and socks
What is puppetry?
Areas filled with props, such as, costumes, and puppets made for creativity and imagination to flow through a show.
What is a dramatization/theatre area?
It takes a village to raise a child. It takes even more of this from a family to keep a child learning and wanting to learn.
Skills or developmental capabilities that are to hopefully be reached by a certain age.
What are Milstones?
Some are magnets, some are velcro, some have pockets, but wow does it make me happy to know it's Friday after looking at this.
What is a Calendar?
Tunes of heritage that offer children the experience to learn language and literacy from exactly where they're from
What is Culturally Diverse Music Experiences/Cultural Literacy?
Where the day begins and ends filled with music, stories, conversations, and one big student filled shape.
What is circle time?
Many times English is not the first language for children part of ECE classes. To promote language and literacy in all languaged homes it is vital to have these to support their literacy.
What are multilingual materials?
The _________ regarding language in early childhood posits that humans possess the innate ability and knowledge of language from birth. This happens without the assistance of an adult
What is the Nativist Theory?