Print Rich
Classrooms
The Language Arts Center
Planning For Centers
Family Home Connections
Vocabulary
100

Something easily accessible to children for independent exploration in a print rich classroom.

What are books/reading materials?

100

What should the ideal language arts center be like?

What is cozy?

100

Tools always found in classroom language centers

What are writing tools?

100

What must family involvement first start with?

What is a trusting relationship?

100

Individual that believes children are born as "blank slates"

What is a nurturist?

200

An easy and simple way to take attendance in class. 

What is an attendance chart?

200

Language arts center number one function

What is providing looking and listening activities for children?

200

Types of centers

What are literacy, reading, and writing?

200

How can teachers promote communication between the classroom and families?

What is two way communication?

200

Point in development when
a child reaches a new and
advanced way of thinking

What are milestones?

300

How can teachers make classrooms more student-centered?

What is allowing students creative input?

300

What materials might you find in a basic Language Arts Center for young children?

What are books, crayons, paper?

300

Controversy about child technology use

What is screen time?

300

Access to additional settings outside the home

What is literacy building?

300

Creative and stimulating
activities made specifically to
aid in a child's development

What are baby games?

400

Way in which students can privately confide in teachers

What is a message center/classroom news bulletin?

400

What technology can be integrated into a Language Arts Center to support literacy development in early childhood?

What are tablets/computers/audio books?

400

Puppets with related books in literacy centers

What are manipulatives?

400

Families with low educational aspirations need

What is sensitive professional outreach?


400

Theory stressing that human
development happens in
eight stages

What is psychosocial 

500

Strategies for recognizing cultural and diverse home lives of children? 

What is incorporating culturally diverse materials?

500

What activity contributes to language arts development? 

What are read alouds?

500

Specific place for students to share their own creative writing

What are writing centers?

500

Name a potential challenge in family-home connections

What are language barriers?

500

Listening that encourages the
child to become aware of
pitch and volume

What is discriminative listening?