Chapter 5 Emergent Literacy Strategies
Print-Rich Classroom Environments
• Designing a Print-Rich Classroom Environment
• The Classroom Library Center
• The Writing Center
• Literacy-Enriched Play Centers
• Environmental and Functional Print
Providing print rich environments for children helps to promote a child’s ability to learn literacy by providing children with many opportunities for rich learning. Children need supportive classroom environments such as library centers, writing centers, and enriched play centers. Children need to have easy access to many books that are appropriate and interesting to them. Teachers should supply materials that encourage children want to write and have dramatic play areas set up in the classroom so children can have meaningful interactions with reading and writing.
Sharing Books with Young Children
• Selecting Good Books for Children
• Effective Story-Reading Strategies
It is important to select quality picture story books for children because this plays a big part in their literacy development. You can find a list of recommended books for each age group that offer a wide range of themes and different topics children can choose from based on their age.
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Group stories are when children have an experience that they all share together. Then all the children work on a project or activity together each putting in their own thoughts and ideas. Individual experience stories is when a student tells a teacher what to write and dictates his or her own story as the teacher writes it down, then the teacher will read it back to the child. By doing this activity it models fluent oral reading. Afterwards the child reads their own story. Interactive writing involves the children and the teacher all working together to create text. The teacher starts to write then encourages the children to also join in and write something on the