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Chapter 14

Developmentally Appropriate Cognitive/Language/Literacy

Environments: For Preschoolers

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Preoperational Thinking

• Centration• Egocentrism• Irreversibility• Concreteness• Reasoning• Symbolic

Thought

Piaget

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Teachers’ Roles in Providing for Play

• Creator of the environment• Observer and recorder• Facilitator/scaffolder• Model• Questioner• Responder• Planner

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Learning Center Approach Provides

• Choices• Free movement• Range of developmental

differences• Facilitation of play• Cooperative learning• Initiative

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Preschool Language Environment

• Conversation• Acceptance• Experience• Children’s

literature• Group time

• Book extenders• Print-rich

environment• Show-and-Tell• Calendar Time• Writing Center

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Components of Literacy

• Vocabulary and language

• Phonological awareness

• Knowledge of print

• Knowledge of letters and words

• Comprehension of meaning

• Awareness of books and other texts

• Seeing literacy as a source of pleasure