an elementary school classroom; research has shown us that young children need to be surrounded by print and encouraged to encounter it at every turn to learn to become able readers. But does a student's need to be in a literacy-rich classroom environment stop when she becomes an adolescent...
Rolling up our sleeves and creating a rich literary environmentBrosseuk, DebPractical Literacy: The Early & Primary Years
Do you want to bring a 21st century classroom design into your classroom? The key design elements of a literacy-rich 21st century classroom include..
The infographic below summarizes Key Characteristics of a Literacy-Rich Environment. Use this with colleagues as a means to create conversation and movement toward creating print-rich environments that support student learning, the Common Core Standards, and provide for equity and access across classrooms...
It therefore combined a skills based approach with an immersion in a literacy rich environment. Activities were designed to be fun and engaging for the children in order to try and ensure it did not seem simply as an extension to the normal school day. It also drew on the concept of ...
The current study mainly investigated the characteristics of the home literacy environment (HLE) and the relationship between the HLE and emergent literacy skills with young Chinese children's development. Sixty-seven Mandarin-speaking children were followed from the second year of kindergarten (K2; ...
What to Look for in a Quality Literacy-Rich Preschool Classroom What to Look for in a Quality Literacy-RichClassroom, Preschool
The arrangement of desks in the classroom can make a big difference when creating a mathematically rich learning environment. The traditional high school math classroom has student desks aligned in rows and columns, but this may not be the best arrangement for engaging students with a stimulating ...
Understanding what happens when teachers embrace digital media for literacy learning is critical to realizing the potential of learning in the digital era. This article examines some of the ways that a high school teacher and his students leverage digital technologies for literacy learning in their ...
Teachers familiar with the Curriculum for Excellence will be aware that there are no set texts specified within the “experiences and outcomes” for English or literacy. Critics would point out that this leaves a lot of individual choice in teachers’ hands, potentially leading pupils into a narro...