Print-Rich Classrooms
Labeling objects and areas in the classroom helps children make connections between spoken and written language, supporting this type of development.
What is literacy development?
This center provides looking and listening activities, hands-on experiences with communication materials, and a place to store them.
What is the language arts center?
When planning centers, teachers should consider these two things: instructional goals and students’ ________.
What are needs?
This type of program aims to reduce the disconnect between home and school by recognizing family literacy practices and cultural knowledge.
What is a family literacy program?
This term refers to a classroom filled with meaningful words, signs, and labels that help children connect print to meaning.
What is a print-rich environment?
Teachers can highlight the functional use of print by pointing it out in this part of the daily classroom experience.
What is classroom routines?
Soft pillows, a cozy corner, and a bean bag chair are examples of items that help create this feeling in a language arts center.
What is comfort or a cozy environment?
A well-planned center should allow children to engage in both self-chosen activities and these.
What are teacher-planned or directed activities?
Project Flame is built on teaching parents school-based literacy skills while also valuing this.
What is the family’s cultural knowledge and personal perspective?
This is the process of children learning language and literacy skills through everyday experiences before formal schooling begins.
What is emergent literacy?
Adding print to dramatic play areas and encouraging children to use it in their play helps build these types of skills.
What are communication and language skills?
These materials, such as puppets, flannel boards, and language games, help children develop expressive language skills.
What are speech materials?
Each classroom center should promote this type of skill, allowing for practice and accomplishment.
What are language or perceptual skills?
Encouraging activities like storybook reading at home is a long-standing goal of this type of collaboration.
What is home-school collaboration?
This concept emphasizes learning through child-initiated play that is supported by appropriate adult guidance and materials.
What is play-based learning?
A classroom with name tags, charts, signs, daily routines, and labeled materials is an example of this kind of environment.
What is a print-rich classroom?
This key design strategy can expand the use of a small area in a crowded language center.
What is building upward with lofts or bunks?
When designing a center, teachers should first do this to understand what materials and space are available.
What is take an inventory?
Studies show that when children do this at home, it often sparks family literacy interaction.
What is bring home schoolwork?
A school strategy that includes respect for and incorporation of families’ cultural traditions and values into the learning environment.
What is culturally responsive teaching?
According to research, the presence of meaningful, functional print in the classroom has been directly linked to improvements in this area of literacy.
What is children's writing ability?
According to Reutzel and Clark, this is the first step in creating an effective literacy classroom.
What is taking an inventory of supplies, furnishings, literacy materials, and technology?
Creating a rough floor plan to scale is important because it helps determine the layout and identify this critical classroom area.
What is the library/reading/book area?
Research has shown that high levels of parent involvement can lead to these three benefits for children:
What are higher test scores, better attendance, and stronger cognitive skills?
A method where teachers observe and document children’s learning over time, often used in family communication.
What is a child portfolio?