Bachelor of Education, Early Childhood Education Degree

Observation Table: Environmental Print in the Classroom

Table 1: Documenting Environmental Print
Examples of Environmental Print Purpose Ideas for further
development
- To teach them how - It will be better if they
important to be wrote it in English
clean. which will be useful to
read it in Arabic and
- Let them see the English to let them
pictures and create learn letters.
their own story by
watching the - The size of the
pictures. pictures should be
bigger to be abuse for
them.

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Reflections on Observation Task 1: Environmental in the Classroom

Read the questions below and choose (1) one to respond to

1. How does environmental print impact students’ language development, and their
reading and writing abilities? It improves their reading abilities by seeing the pictures
and trying to read the words through the pictures.

2. How do students of different reading levels use environmental print? Some students
who do not know how to read are trying to understand it through watching the
pictures.

3. How does awareness of environmental print impact how students view themselves as
readers? It enhances their self-esteem by trying to see and read the pictures and
understand them.

4. How does a school-home connection (based on environmental print) impact students'

literacy development? The environment print enhances the letters that are under the
pictures so they can try to read.

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