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Vocabulary
100

Can promote language skills in many ways providing the reality behind words and ideas

What is classroom environment?

100

What type of activities does a language center provide to help children develop their communication skills?

What are looking and listening activities?

100

Why are materials demonstrated before they are made available to the children?

What is to ensure proper use and respectful handling?

100

Which is a child's foremost teacher and model?

What is Family?

100

Mechanical or nonmechanical item useful in offering sight or hearing experience

What is audiovisual equipment?

200

Provides successful experiences for all children in a climate in which ideas and creative learning flourish

What is prepared environment?

200

A language center includes activities where children observe and listen. What is the primary purpose of these activities?

What is to develop communication skills?

200

Why do teachers use step-by-step picture charts?

What is to help children use equipment, materials, and technology on their own?

200

Teachers should not make assumptions about a family's what?

What is parenting practices?

200

Classroom area designed to accommodate children's listening experiences

What is listening center?

300

How do materials and furnishings impact the design of the classroom?

What is they can isolate one or many learning centers in the room?

300

How does a language center help children practice their communication skills besides activities like looking and listening?

What is through hands-on experiences with materials?

300

Children who use read-alongs are learning what?

What is word recognition and more advanced reading skills?

300

The essential element is the intimacy between the child and the people in their life who share a common environment; this intimacy fosters, what?

What is the understanding of meanings and child curiosity?

300

Classroom specifically set aside and equipped for language arts-related activities and child use

What is Language Center?

400

How do materials and settings help children practice and accomplish tasks?

What is they allow for practice and accomplishment through interactive play and exploration?

400

Why does a language center need a place to store materials?

What is to keep them organized and accessible for activities?

400

Teachers design spacious, well-defined, well-stocked areas for which two learning areas?

What is block play and dramatic play?

400

Families feelings of being respected, accepted, and valued for their individual and cultural diversity is called?

What is developing trust?

400

Early childhood program's attempt to provide supportive assistance to attempting children's families to promote their children's success in school and developmental growth

What is outreach?

500

What specific skills do certain materials promote in a child?

What is language and perceptual skills? 

500

The ideal language center has comfortable, soft furnishings with ample work space, proper lightening, and screening to help children do what?

What is block out other areas of an active classroom?

500

Which two of the most underutilized instructional items in early childhood are?

What is chalkboard or whiteboard?

500

Family-school contacts usually take place in at least eight ways. What are the eight ways?

What is daily conversations, e-mails, written communications, shared school-home, communication digital apps, family meetings, workshops, social events, and individual conferences?

500

Community programs attempting to provide literacy-building opportunities and experiences for families. Services are available for both adults and children

What is Family literacy programs?