A Language Rich Preschool Classroom?

 

Creating Language Rich Preschool Classrooms, Laura Justice (2004)

http://ici-bostonready-pd-2009-2010.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/Creating+Language+Rich+Preschool+Classroom+Environments.pdf

A short excerpt

◆ Do children at your preschool have strong language and literacy skills?

◆ Do children with language disabilities participate in general preschool classrooms?

◆ Do educators at your school collaborate in language-rich curriculums?

◆ Do you have sufficient funding for a quality preschool program? These are broad, ambitious questions,

and we hope to set you on your way to answering them and ensuring the success of all the children in your

preschool program.

 

What Does the Literature Say About Language-Rich Classrooms

 

It is, of course, one thing to know what a language-rich classroom environment looks like and another thing to put one’s ideas and intentions into everyday practice….”

 

Exposure

Deliberateness

Recurrence

High quality input

Adult responsiveness