Print Rich Classrooms
Having a print-rich environment has been shown to have a positive effect on children's writing abilities.
Why is having a print-rich environment important?
It provides looking and listening activities, gives children an area for hands-on experience with communication-developing materials, and provides a place to store materials.
What are the 3 main functions of a language center?
The literacy center is meant to be a quite place focused on print. However, computers are useful in literacy learning so being in a location were they are visible throughout the classroom will be the best spot.
Where should computers be in the classroom?
setting, models, and planned and unplanned events
What influences child literacy?
A theory by Erikson, that consists of eight stages characterized by a different psychosocial crisis of two conflicting forces.
What is Psychosocial?
The study done by Gerde et al.
What study proved a correlation between a print-rich classroom and learning?
This area has comfortable furnishing with plenty of workspace, proper lighting, and screening to create an isolated space.
The ideal language canter.
Teachers and staff members classify materials that are off-screen into to two categories: "looking and listening" and "working with".
How are language centers organized?
Interactions with parents, siblings, grandparents, and other relatives enrich children's lives, serving as models for behaviors, values, and events that take place are all language development oppurtunities.
Why is family connectedness important?
A theory that proposes that infants have an innate ability to learn language.
What is Nativist?
According to Reutzel and Clark, what is the first step in creating an effective literacy classroom?
To create an effective literacy classroom, teachers need to take inventory of all supplies, furnishings, literacy material, and technology available in the classroom.
Teachers are responsible for motivating students to use and explore this area, helping children use equipment, helping them use materials, read-along recordings, monitoring the area, sharing books, helping with projects, demonstrating games, and even making charts.
What is the teacher's role in language centers?
Manipulatives, quiet areas, rugs, and pillows, use 10 percent of the classroom space, five to eight books per child, organized, tables, posters, writing utensils, a message board, etc.
What are some things to look for when evaluating and improving a literacy environment?
Families with lower incomes often have lower literacy achievements compared to middle or upper-class families. This is most likely due to stress, fatigue, low education of adults in the home, and living conditons.
How does income affect literacy?
In this type of listening children follow directions and gives a response.
What is purposeful listening?
A rough floor plan is created to pinpoint the library or reading area in the classroom.
What should teachers do after making an inventory of everything in the classroom?
It promotes large amounts of social interaction and the use of more mature, complex language.
How does dramatic play support literacy?
Provides a place for children to focus on literacy, provides an escape from the noise, and ensures functionality for multiple things revolving around literacy.
Why is planning for a literacy center important?
Sorting groceries with their children, creating home activities, offering enthusiastic support, understand self-control is developing in young children, etc.
What actions can families take to support literacy development?
At this stage of listening children become aware of charges in pitch and loudness eventually this will allow the child to discriminate the speech sounds.
What is Discrimitive listening?
-Using print and numerals in games.
-Add print to dramatic or imaginative play areas.
-Use a physical attendance chart where students can move their names to show they are attending school that day.
What are ways to make an environment print-rich?
Having things at a child's-eye-level their attention will be captured and promote discussion which is one use for these. More ways are to hang up art, assignments, their names, decorate using themes based on their interest, and even honor the children in the classroom.
How can bulletin boards and displays be used to support literary learning?
They have helped improve the speech skills of children with dyslexia and other language-based learning disabilities.
Why are computers a positive literacy learning tool?
Planning meetings, explaining phonemic awareness, working with families regardless of how hard they are to reach, using daily messages, etc.
How can schools maintain communication with parents about their children's development?
This is a type of listening where the child finds pleasure and entertainment in hearing music, poems, and stories.
What is appreciative listening?