We can’t always control how we feel, but we can control how we express our emotions
This is key! Students are not learning to suppress emotions, but rather how to identify them. The teacher or parent can be important factors during this time and show that the emotions may come but they can control the outcome or how it makes them react.
You are sad
Identifying common emotions and what they are called can help understand better what is going on.
use language to express their feelings and treat others with kindness
I feel like many times, students need constant reminders of this while in school. Even if they have programs they use in the young stages I think students will still need the consistent reminders in the classroom. Young students still have developing brains and sometimes learn better from experience.
According to multiple studies, preschoolers who participate in social-emotional skills programs exhibit less aggression and anxiety and become better social problem solvers.
This is a very important find! A lot of newer studies are showing the high anxiety that even young preschoolers start to feel. I think the main focus needs to turn to the anxiety piece, and to find out the main sources of the anxiety, and where it could be coming from.
at home
It is important to try and tie in the family in any way to help support school and home development
connection literacy has to the real world.
This is a key factor to literacy-based practices
Teachers
How a teacher brings language into each conversation is important. Students need to practice using specific content-area vocabulary and identify words that go with a main idea in a text. This can be easier when it is put into practice consistently during the school day.
calendars, schedules, signs, and directions
These things can be important to have in the classroom, even as upper elementary level
A literacy-rich environment is a setting that stimulates students with disabilities to participate in language and literacy activities in their daily lives thereby giving them the beginning understandings of the utility and function of oral and written language.
Good definition of literacy-rich environment
2000
What are the numbers now, 26 years later?