1.The importance of respecting each child’s culture and home languages?
Children have a difficult time to transition from home to school because they must adapt to two sets of rules, values, expectations, and behaviors. (NAEYC, 1995). The families and teachers must respect and reinforce each other because you work together and will have the best benefits for the children. Teachers when they acknowledge and respect the child’s home language and their culture the ties between families and the teacher are strengthened. This type of atmosphere helps the child feel supported, nurtured, and helps them to feel connected. This helps the child learn better. (NAEYC, 1995).
2. How teachers support literacy development for young children from diverse backgrounds? …show more content…
Make sure that children that speak the same language are not grouped with each …show more content…
The teacher can provide ongoing observations on activities that are going on in the classroom to expose the children to language associated with the context. (Ford, 2007).
4. What strategies expand oral language and early literacy development?
5 classroom strategies for Language
1. Provide explicit, systematic Instruction in vocabulary.
A. Children need a lot of exposure to words so they can develop a rich understanding of meaning and the use. (Ford, 2007). Teachers need to introduce interesting new words into the classroom activities. 2. The ELLS have an opportunity to communicate with both adults and peers and keep ongoing feedback and encourage them. A. Give them opportunities to engage in social interaction with their peers, and teachers need to support them as they develop their language skills to help with those interactions. (Ford, 2007).
3. Expose the ELLs to rich language input. (Ford, 2007) A. Exposing the Ells to rich language through book reading or teacher talking, has shown to make the ELLs oral language more enhanced.
4. Structuring the classroom space and the routine for scaffolding for ELLs language
Children have a difficult time to transition from home to school because they must adapt to two sets of rules, values, expectations, and behaviors. (NAEYC, 1995). The families and teachers must respect and reinforce each other because you work together and will have the best benefits for the children. Teachers when they acknowledge and respect the child’s home language and their culture the ties between families and the teacher are strengthened. This type of atmosphere helps the child feel supported, nurtured, and helps them to feel connected. This helps the child learn better. (NAEYC, 1995).
2. How teachers support literacy development for young children from diverse backgrounds? …show more content…
Make sure that children that speak the same language are not grouped with each …show more content…
The teacher can provide ongoing observations on activities that are going on in the classroom to expose the children to language associated with the context. (Ford, 2007).
4. What strategies expand oral language and early literacy development?
5 classroom strategies for Language
1. Provide explicit, systematic Instruction in vocabulary.
A. Children need a lot of exposure to words so they can develop a rich understanding of meaning and the use. (Ford, 2007). Teachers need to introduce interesting new words into the classroom activities. 2. The ELLS have an opportunity to communicate with both adults and peers and keep ongoing feedback and encourage them. A. Give them opportunities to engage in social interaction with their peers, and teachers need to support them as they develop their language skills to help with those interactions. (Ford, 2007).
3. Expose the ELLs to rich language input. (Ford, 2007) A. Exposing the Ells to rich language through book reading or teacher talking, has shown to make the ELLs oral language more enhanced.
4. Structuring the classroom space and the routine for scaffolding for ELLs language