Print Rich Classrooms
This provides children with a variety of interesting classroom centers and areas, materials, objects, and furnishings keeping programs fascinating and challenging.
What is a Print-Rich classroom?
This provides looking and listening activities for children, it gives children an area for hands on experiences with communication-developing materials, and provides a place to store materials.
What is a language center?
When using computer programs that support and reinforce the major objectives of their curricula, these children, have significantly greater developmental gains when compared with children who have not had computer experiences in the classroom.
Who are 3 and 4 year olds?
Early childhood educators should not make "these" when looking at a family's parenting practices as within any cultural group-be it ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, or religious- individuals and families vary in their beliefs and adherence to the social conventions of their community.
What are assumptions?
Noticing an infants actions, including gestures, body positioning, noisemaking, eye gazing, and any shift from listening to watching
What is an attuned adult?
This should offer materials that capture attention, motivate play, and build communication skills where familiar and favorite materials and furnishings are enjoyed repeatedly.
What is an early childhood classroom?
There should be enough of these in a language arts center to reflect the cultures, family structures, and lived experiences in the classroom
What are books?
Educators always have in mind the goal of having children grasp the interrelatedness of speaking, listening, reading, and writing so they rearrange furnishings until this is found.
What is the most functional arrangement?
Families develop "this" when they feel respected, accepted, and valued for their individual and cultural diversity, and when staff members are sensitive to their family economics.
What is trust?
When a child is able to follow directions and give responses.
What is purposeful listening?
Someone who recognizes and supports children's differences and recognizes the diverse cultures and home lives of the children in their care.
What is a teacher?
This can be the most underutilized instructional item in early childhood centers
What is a chalkboard or whiteboard?
When teacher plan for their software and digital program selection, they should provide this, which encourages creativity rather than drill and practice software.
What is open-ended software?
Helping children in writing letters to grandparents or sick friends and putting little notes in children's lunchboxes or backpacks help parents to build "this".
What is print awareness and skill?
One who adheres to the theory that the minds of children are blank or uniformed and need educational input or direct instruction to develop and "output" knowledge and appropriate behavior.
What is a nurturist?
These two people suggest that the first step in creating an effective literacy classroom involves taking an inventory of supplies, furnishings, literacy materials-including the classroom book collection and the technology available.
Who are Reutzel and Clark?
Headsets, cd players, digital cameras, and pocket wall charts with stands can be found here.
What is the listening center?
This is the number of computers and printers that work well in a preschool or kindergarten classroom.
What is 2 or 3 computers and 1 or 2 printers?
These take place in eight ways...daily conversations, e-mails, written communications, shared school-home communication digital apps, family meetings, workshops, social events, and individual conferences.
What are family-school contacts?
A significant achievement or skill that most children reach within a specific age range.
What is a milestone?
Having an attendance chart that allows children to take their names from the chart and place them in a basket as they enter the classroom.
What is a suggestion for a Print-Rich environment?
This organization recommends no screen time at all for children 18 to 24 months, except for video chatting.
What is the American Academy of Pediatrics?
This is center is usually placed in a quiet, separated, and low traffic area of the classroom that allows for teacher monitoring.
What is the computer center?
These 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.
What is a conference?
When a child understands, evaluates, makes decisions, and formulates opinions.
What is critical listening?