Print Rich Classroom
What are the benefits of a print rich classroom?
Help facilitate early literacy development, including print concepts, and help students develop a positive attitude towards literacy.
What are the three main functions of a language art center?
. it provides looking and listening activities for children.
.it gives children an area for hands-on experiences with communication-developing materials.
.it provides a place to store materials.
Why is planning important in an early childhood center?
Planning is a way to ensure that children's learning is effective, that they are making the required progress towards early learning goals and is key to making learning exciting and progressive.
What are some tips for strengthening the home- schools connection with the families of English language learners?
1. Host a back-to-school night with interpreters. Make accommodations for parents’ schedules. Offer transportation, food, and childcare. Use this event as an opportunity to find out how to establish and maintain regular contact with families. Also include information about adult education opportunities.
2.Develop family learning activities (including multilingual activities.) Send this home to involve the family.
3. Involve language minority parents on advisory committees, councils, and key communicator group.
Appreciative Listening
The child finds pleasure and entertainment in hearing music, poems, and stories. It is best to begin with this type of listening because it is passive, but personal, for each child.
What do you expect to see in a print rich classroom environment?
Printed labels are posted on doors, windows, bookcases, sinks, etc. Printed signs are also used to designate the theme or purpose of different learning centers. Books, magazines, and other print materials are also provided.
What is the ideal language center?
The ideal language center has comfortable, soft furnishings with ample workspace, proper lighting, and screening to block out other areas of an active classroom.
What is the purpose of centers in the classrooms?
To focus on a set of skills and deepen the children knowledge and abilities in that area.
How Parents Can Promote Listening Skills?
Trying to teach children to listen to and identify sounds, such as the whine of car tires, bird calls, insect noises, and sounds of different kinds of doors closing in the house is something families can do to increase skill.
Nativist
The nativist believe that children are born with an innate ability to organize laws of language, w ich enables children to easily learn a native language.
How can print richness be improved in the classroom?
-Child made books.
-Teacher made books.
-Books made by the class based on shared experiences.
-Picture books.
-Pillows, rugs, rockers (to create a soft, comfortable area).
-Childrens magazines.
What was the suggestion from Barone and Xu?
creating an inviting area that easily accommodates five to six children at one time.
What is the best reason to use centers in early childhood settings?
They allow children time to engage in developmentally appropriate practice activities that are well thought out and planned by the teacher.
What is a meeting conference?
Conferences let families know what plans the school has in place to address their children’s individual interests and growth, and whether their plans are working.
Nurturist
Nurture refers to the influence of the environment, upbringing, experiences, and social factors on human development, behavior, and traits.
How does print rich environment impact behavior?
Children incorporate literacy into their dramatic play.
What is the teacher's role in language centers?
Teachers are congenial, interested companions for the children and can motivate interest in and use of the center by posting children’s work on the center bulletin board, planning chalkboard activities, and printing messages that may catch the children’s attention.
How teachers plan a center in the classroom?
. Gather students Materials.
. Write a clear direction with visuals.
. Set Behavioral goals and expectations.
. Keep groups to five students.
. Provide clean up time.
Should a family member entering the classroom be ignored in the doorway or left to search for a staff person?
Not in a school sensitive to the power of a personal greeting.
Interactionists- Constructivist
Interactionist is a sociological perspective that emphasizes the importance of social interactions in shaping human behavior and society
How print rich classrooms can stimulate and encourage incidental reading?
-Make your own posters using drawings or pictures from old magazines and newspapers.
-Make posters using rhymes, songs and riddles in different languages.
-Read them with the children, pointing to the words as you read.
-Encourage the children to read and re-read them by themselves or with friends.
What is the importance of art center in early childhood classroom?
Using art tools helps children develop small muscle coordination and control.
What makes a good learning center?
Incorporate materials and activities that address different learning types, such as visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.
Identify one way in which programs and child centers build family–school partnerships?
building trust through actions that communicate the school’s respect toward each family’s educational values, economic resource level, and individual and cultural diversity.
Purposeful Listening
The child follows directions and gives responses