Print-Rich Classrooms
This visual aid helps children learn to recognize the name of letters and the sounds associated with each letter.
What is an alphabet display?
This designated area in a classroom involves devices such as a tablet, cd player, and headphones to help children develop listening skills. As well as reading and vocabulary comprehension.
What is a listening center?
This classroom strategy uses pictures, icons, or objects to show the order in which specific activities will occur throughout the course of the day.
What is a visual schedule?
This literacy-based resource can be sent home with children weekly, filled with themed books, literacy activities, and games to promote family reading.
What is a family literacy bag?
This classroom strategy refers to a child's ability to focus and pay attention to sounds, words, and instructions. While responding and reacting appropriately. Also developing the ability to follow simple one step directions.
What is toddler listening?
This classroom strategy involves labeling items such as shelves, containers, and classroom centers to help children form a connection with written and spoken language.
What is labeling classroom materials?
This classroom strategy involves objects such as blocks, playdough, sand, and water. Which helps encourage children to experiment and use their imagination in creative ways.
What are open-ended materials?
This classroom strategy provides children with various literacy-based activities. While the teacher works with a smaller group of children.
What is a center rotation?
This particular school event promotes literacy and invites families to visit the school environment of their child.
What is family literacy night?
This classroom strategy primarily focuses on listening to auditory information for the sake of personal enjoyment, pleasure, or entertainment purposes. Such as a favorite song, movie, tv show, or a poetry reading.
What is appreciative listening?
This classroom strategy helps children learn new words, use vocabulary accurately, and understand the meaning of words.
What is a word wall?
This classroom strategy helps children to recognize and manipulate sounds in words without focusing on the written words or letters.
What is phonological awareness?
This classroom strategy promotes student engagement through literacy-based activities that requires active class participation in the classroom learning environment. Such as class discussions or group activities.
What are engagement strategies?
This activity provides an opportunity for families to actively participate and share traditional stories, as well as cultural heritage amongst the school community.
What is heritage day?
This theory provides an outline for understanding the development of humans in eight stages of an entire lifespan of humans, from infancy to old age.
What is Psychosocial?
This classroom strategy helps children learn about the parts of a book such as the title, cover, author, and how to turn the pages of a book.
What is print awareness?
This literacy strategy helps children to recall key elements in the text of a story in chronological order. such as the setting and the main characters of a story.
What is narrative retelling?
This classroom strategy documents and provides substantial evidence of a child's interactions, reading and writing abilities, and developmental growth during instruction or specific literacy- based activities.
What are observation notes?
This concept aims to improve the well-being of families by providing resources and services to address specific or basic needs. Such as childcare, housing, and employment.
What is family-home connections?
This concept refers to a child's the ability to read, write, listen, and speak in an effective way that allows children to make sense of the world around them.
What is a literacy?
These visual aids illustrate and reinforce literacy skills as well as grammar and vocabulary concepts. Such as definitions, rules, examples of reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.
What are literacy posters?
This literacy strategy involves a group of words that share the same vowel sound, pattern, or the same ending letters.
What are word families?
This classroom strategy involves frequently adjusting student groups in the classroom learning environment. Based on the individual needs of a child, student progress, learning styles, and interests. Instead of forming a fixed or a static group.
What is a flexible group?
This communication tool informs parents on what's going on in the school environment. While encouraging at home reading.
What is a shared school-home communication digital app?
This classroom strategy refers to age-appreciate benchmarks that identify a child's progress in specific areas of development. Such as fine and gross motor skills, language, cognitive, and social- emotional skills.
What are milestones?