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Bob O Mid Term Exam 1.) Print-rich environment means using print in every form in the classroom. Using word walls, message centers, student’s writing samples, lots of books from every genre, learning centers, and real world objects that inspire study and reflections. 2.) Effective teachers would begin the school year by assessing the students in order to know where each student is at and what you will need to re-address or spend more/less time on. Also each student learns differently so you need to know how he or she learn best in order to accommodate their needs. Teachers must learn which reading skills each child already knows and does not know in order to plan appropriate instruction. 3.) The zone of proximal development is the difference between what a child can do alone and in collaboration with others. Once the zone of proximal development is identified, a teacher, parent, or more advanced peer could help a learner perform a task he or she would not be capable of doing alone. 4.) Expressive language is when the sender of a message encodes his or her thoughts into the symbol system of the language. Receptive language is when the receiver of a words, reading, writing, word, students, student, know, order, language, children, block, using, understand, teacher, student’s, readers, read, message, identify, grade, each, basal, zone, teachers, system, symbol, study, skills, school, rime, proximal, print, need, must, meaning